[solved] Conky: Show trash bin contents???

orphius1970 · 2010-06-17 05:38:34

I am using Xfce and would love to have a line in my conky that shows if there are files
in my trash or not. somethings like this:

Trash: 0 files
or
Trash: 3 files

Is there a way to do this???

Last edited by orphius1970 (2010-06-17 11:12:31)

demian · 2010-06-17 07:51:57

Sure. An example:
Trash: ${color1}${exec ls -a /home/user/.local/trash | wc -l} Files${color}

Vintendo · 2010-06-17 08:05:47

That would only get you the amount of files AND directories, for just the amount of files I would do:

Trash: ${color1}${exec find /home/user/.local/trash -type f | wc -l} Files${color}

orphius1970 · 2010-06-17 08:23:32

neither one shows any results.

Got it working. This is what I used:

Trash: ${exec find /home/user/.local/share/Trash -type f | wc -l}

Thank you!

Is it possible to make that command check two locations and output as one result.
I have second drive and the trash gets stored in folder .Trash-1000

Last edited by orphius1970 (2010-06-17 08:42:16)

Vintendo · 2010-06-17 11:01:53

You can just add those

Trash: ${color1}${exec find /home/user/.local/trash /second/location/trash/.Trash-1000 /third/location/trash -type f | wc -l} Files${color}

orphius1970 · 2010-06-17 11:12:17

vintendo, thank you.
I had just figured that out. You beat me to it!
Man pages again......

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