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When I right click on a file or folder in Ubuntu 13.10 I only have the option to send it
to the Trash. I would like to be able to delete it instead.
How can I add Delete to my choices?
I have searched and found quite a few replies but only found some obscure methods to
delete files. I have not found out how to add this to the menu.
I would like to just be able to right click and choose "Delete"

Ronshere
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nautilus preferences > behavior (open nautilus, click on 'files' in unity panel to get preferences.

or just use gsettings, in a terminal

gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences enable-delete true
doug
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  • Seems like they removed that option in the GUI at or before version 3.18.0. It is no longer there. Also that gsettings command gives me: "No such key 'enable-delete' " v_v – Victor Oct 12 '15 at 19:47
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I just upgraded my 16.10 to 18.04, and also wanted to just be able to right click and choose "Delete", as I had before.

The answers above gave me some clues, so I did some digging:

gsettings --help got me to gsettings list-schemas

Then grepping that for nautilus I found many related schemas, including org.gnome.nautilus.preferences, which was consistent with earlier answers.

Then gsettings list-keys org.gnome.nautilus.preferences revealed, among many other keys, show-delete-permanently

gsettings get org.gnome.nautilus.preferences show-delete-permanently confirmed that it was set to false.

Issuing gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences show-delete-permanently true immediately changed the file-menu to include Delete Permanently (although it did not get rid of Move to Trash)

After this, I'm going to do some more poking around and experimenting. So far, I've found a few other schema / key combinations I want to change, but they are outside the scope of the immediate question.

IM(ns)HO, gsettings really needs to offer a way to get a list of all permissible settings for any given schema / key combination. Am I missing something?

If there is a GUI to handle all these variations, I haven't been able to find it; I would so like to see one, but I suppose we should be grateful for what we can have...

SteelTrap
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