1GB Trash. Permission denied.

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

>> Out of curiosity I just looked at ~/.config and see things pertaining to
>> apps that I deleted long ago and others pertaining to apps currently
>> installed (but no trash). What is the function of this directory?
>>
> 
> You need to purge the applications, not remove them, to erase those
> files. From TFM for apt-get:
> 
... 
> purge
>     purge is identical to remove except that packages are removed and
> purged (any configuration files are deleted too).

That's misleading - by "any configuration files" it means "the ones we know 
about".  Purging never does anything about the files in ~/, only the ones in 
/etc/.
-- 
derek