astrash is a wastebasket to delete and accidentially restore files. It is intended to be used within an Afterstep desktop environment in combination with filemanagers supporting the OffiX DnD protocol.
Files dropped on the trash will be moved to a hidden directory (~/.trash), they will remain there for a configurable amount of time or until the astrash is shut down.
The popup opened by clicking the trash icon contains a scrollable list of the items moved to the trash directory. Selecting an item copies its former path to the text field below, where the path can be modified before undeleting the item. At the bottom, there are buttons to
* update the list of items with respect to the remaining time
* delete all items finally
* undelete a selected item
* delete a selected item
At the top, there are toggles to configure the trash:
* "Clear item after" keeps items in the trash directory for the given
amount of time (they are deleted with the first trash operation after
this amount is exhausted).
* "Clear list on exit" deletes all items in the trash directory if the
program receives the SIGTERM-Signal.
The following options are available for configuring the trash during startup:
-geometry <spec>
defines the position of the trash at the desktop
(size is useful in combination with the shape option to center the icon).
-shape
shows only the icon with transparent background.
-clearonexit
activates the "Clear list on exit" toggle.
-clearafter <num>
activates the "Clear item after" toggle and sets the remaining time.
-aserror
Afterstep (Version < 1.0 ?) has an error using the DnD protocol, some drop
events are sent twice.
This flag disables the "other drop" and the "icon drop" (which are
not neccessary, because astrash shows its icon in a toplevel window).
There is a small command line utility called asrm, which can be used to delete files to the trash:
