home-watcher: Find out which programs are creating those random files in your home directory

Desktop.ini, desktop.ini, DESKTOP.INI or some other fucked up casing

You should be able to set a watch using the Linux Audit system (which home-watcher also uses). Try something like this

 sh

    
sudo auditctl -w /.Trash-1000 -p rwxa -k trash_monitor


  

You should then be able to search for events in the logs with

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sudo ausearch -k trash_monitor

  

The kde default explorer dolphin does.
It creates them at the root of separate partitions (or maybe only network mounts).
Basically as a fallback to moving it slowly into a local trash.

You probably have the system mounted elsewhere and are accessing it remotely with dolphin would be my guess.

Last time I encountered it I found no good solution, it's very anyoing.
Best workaround is to create a file of the same name as the folder, that way at least it stays empty.

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