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How to remove "Recent Documents" from the "Places" menu

Asked by Dariel Dato-on on 2007-09-28

Hello! Is it possible to remove the "Recent Documents" from the "Places" menu?

Thanks!

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Wrwrwr
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2007-09-28
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2007-09-28
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2007-09-28
Best Wrwrwr (wrwrwr) said : #1

This is really not implemented: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305325.

But there's a little hack to do that (this will grey out the entry in Places):

rm .recently-used.xbel
mkdir .recently-used.xbel

This will remove the file gnome stores number of uses and create a directory in it's place, so it can't be recreated.
Alternatively you can change ownership, or permissions of this file.

Dariel Dato-on (odd-rationale) said : #2

Thanks Wrwrwr, that solved my question.

rhinokitty (rhinokitty) said : #3

Thanks, really helpful!

hertz (aliencek) said : #4

Thanks, this works perfectly on 8.10.

marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : #5

I think is better to recreate the file instead of a directory...

rm .recently-used.xbel
touch .recently-used.xbel

Hope this helps

marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : #6

And change the file permissions...