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home-watcher: Find out which programs are creating those random files in your home directory (github.com)

submitted 6 months ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 6 months ago

"macOS has been here" "how can you tell?" ".DS_Store"

[-] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 11 points 6 months ago

Desktop.ini, desktop.ini, DESKTOP.INI or some other fucked up casing

[-] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 28 points 6 months ago

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.world 20 points 6 months ago

I've seen some programs put their shit in ~/Documents which is even worse.

[-] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 14 points 6 months ago

Windows vibes

[-] brisk@aussie.zone 8 points 6 months ago

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.

[-] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago

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

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You should be able to set a watch using the Linux Audit system (which home-watcher also uses). Try something like this

sudo auditctl -w /.Trash-1000 -p rwxa -k trash_monitor

You should then be able to search for events in the logs with

sudo ausearch -k trash_monitor

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 months ago

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.