Deleting in Nautilus

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Deleting in Nautilus

Postby viking60 » 23 Mar 2012, 16:14

In Gnome3 I cannot delete a file or directory without moving it to the trashcan first and then empty it. To get the delete option back when you rightclick the directory:

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gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences enable-delete "true"

That is what I did :-D
You will still have to confirm that you really want to delete it. To get rid of that:

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gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences confirm-trash "false"


This works in Cinnamon too.
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