file managementthunarxfce
I found myself always holding Shift when I delete a file with Thunar (the XFCE file manager).
When I was using Windows I was always disabling "recycle bin" immediately after installation. I've looked for similar option in Thunar settings but had no luck finding it.
Do you happen to know a way?
In the Settings Manager choose Window Manager Tweaks, then on the third tab, Accessibility you will find the control Key used to grab and move windows:
I can only reproduce this if I enable "Sync Selections" in Clipman.
Make sure "Sync selections" is unchecked and you should be fine.
For more background on the multiple clipboards, see:
Best Answer
According to the Xfce FAQ, you cannot disable the Trash.
They provide three suggestions, two of which which are also mentioned in the comments above:
Use Shift + del to bypass the trash bin and immediately delete something for real.
use cron to clean the trash every now and then.
or create custom action for permanent delete(like in gnome) with action: rm %f then in context menu you'll have button “permanent delete”
Personally, I use the a cron job that runs every 24 hours that calls
trash-empty. You can simply call the command by itself, or give an option(in days) to remove files that have been in the trash longer than that specified number of days.