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qaz@lemmy.world to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months ago

home-watcher: Find out which programs are creating those random files in your home directory

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qaz@lemmy.world to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months ago
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  • ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org
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    auto installing in the home directory is like walking into someone’s house and putting your feet up on their table. so rude.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldOP
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      I’ve seen some programs put their shit in ~/Documents which is even worse.

      • brisk@aussie.zone
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        This nonsense is why I’ve never set my XDG_HOME_DIRS to their actual values. A convenient button in file browsers isn’t worth the intrusion.

      • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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        6 months ago

        Windows vibes

  • kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    “macOS has been here” “how can you tell?” “.DS_Store”

    • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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      Desktop.ini, desktop.ini, DESKTOP.INI or some other fucked up casing

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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    Nice, I’ve wanted something like this many times now.

  • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world
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    I’d like to know which one is creating /.Trash-1000. Yes, at the root folder. No, I don’t have any other OS installed in this system but linux

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      The kde default explorer dolphin does.
      It creates them at the root of separate partitions (or maybe only network mounts).
      Basically as a fallback to moving it slowly into a local trash.

      You probably have the system mounted elsewhere and are accessing it remotely with dolphin would be my guess.

      Last time I encountered it I found no good solution, it’s very anyoing.
      Best workaround is to create a file of the same name as the folder, that way at least it stays empty.

  • daddy32@lemmy.world
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    …and than… what? Ask them nicely to stop?

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      https://youtu.be/gxr-5Nz9lhU

    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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      *bonk* go to firejail

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