How to force Midnight Commander deleting files&folders to GUI trash?

von.hake · 01-13-2011, 10:00 AM

Hi!
Is it possible to make mc using trash when deleting files and folders in the way defined by FreeDesktop.org Trash Specification ?
I've tried to make an alias for rm command replacing it with trash-put (trash-cli utility), but it didn't help.

frankbell · 01-13-2011, 09:08 PM

I don't think so. I don't think mc understands GUIs.

I took a look at Gnome Commander. It doesn't seem to have a move to trash option either.

Of course, I may be wrong and, if so, I hope someone corrects me.

von.hake · 01-14-2011, 04:11 AM

ok, when not GUI trash then can it just move deleted files to some folder called Trash, in order to have a possibility of restoring deleted files during some period of time?

jschiwal · 01-14-2011, 04:26 AM

Use the search on this site. Someone asked a similar question in the past about aliasing rm to mv. The solution was to intercept the system call for rm so that a move to trash was done instead. Sorry, but I don't remember the details.

jschiwal · 01-14-2011, 04:37 AM

I think I found the project.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/libtrash

It intercepts system calls such as unlink() and moves the files to a users .Trash folder instead.

von.hake · 01-17-2011, 04:29 AM

That's it! Thank you.