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  • Empty Trash from the terminal

    For some reason I can not recall I went into my Trash bin on Fedora. There was unsurprisingly a lot of trash!

    I decided to empty the Trash bin but it only succeeded partially. I had a DVD directory that did not want to be deleted. Looking closer at the message it was a permissions error. Not sure how though, since if I did not have permissions to delete the directory from the Trash bin, how on Earth could I have moved it into the Trash bin to start with…!

    Looking around my home directory in the terminal I could not locate the exact spot to manually remove the directory. As always Google came to assistance and brought up a nice forum topic about how to empty the Trash bin in Fedora from the terminal.

    The simplest way would be to run the following command as root:

    rm -rf  ~/.local/share/Trash/files/*

  • Home and End keys in PuTTY

    I wondered why sometimes the Home and End keys work as expected during a SSH session via PuTTY and some other times it just writes tildes (~) instead. When writing long commands it is a real annoyance having to press down the left arrow to get back to the beginning of the command.

    A simple solution which worked for me was to change the Terminal-type String under the Connection > Data tab from the default “xterm” to simply “linux”:

    PuTTY Terminal Type String

    Now you should be able to use your Home and End keys to easily move the cursor back and forth during a SSH session using PuTTY.