rmshit solves annoying Desktop (et al) creation

30 May 2010

Tired of having unwanted configs, directories and bloat messing with your home dir?

So was I.

rmshit uses inotify to watch your $HOME (or, alternatively, any other dir) for
unwanted files and instantly deletes them. Since it’s a daemon, you can start
it at boot time and know that’ll keep your directories clean.

To install the dependencies: 

cpan Linux::Inotify2 Working::Daemon

or use your package manager of choice.

To install rmshit: 

git clone git://github.com/trapd00r/rmshit.git
cd rmshit
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

You might want to edit the @shittyfiles array, containing unwanted files and dirs.
It looks like this right now:

my @shittyfiles = qw(.dbus
                     .gconf
                     .gconfd
                     .links
                     .lynx
                     .local
                     .Xauthority
                     .dmenu_cache
                     .fmenu_cache
                     .esd_auth
                     .fehrc
                     .xsel.log
                     .ncmpcpp
                     Desktop
                     .adobe
                     .macromedia
                   );