Subject: bug#44059: 28.0.50; Trash files cannot be deleted properly if delete-by-moving-to-trash is set

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:13:50 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> And... there doesn't seem to be any commands in Emacs for emptying the
>> trash can?  Shouldn't there be?
>
> AFAIU, doing this for freedesktop-style trash isn't trivial.

Isn't there some external command we could run?  From a quick look at my
system maybe "gio trash --empty"?