Clear and Disable Recent Documents list on ubuntu gnome
This post was written by admin on July 19, 2009
Posted Under: General
Posted Under: General
In Places->Recent Documents it lists recent documents on you ubuntu gnome.You may want to disable it because you don’t want other people to see in your list.
To clear the recent documents,just click on “Clear Recent Documents”.
To disable the recent documents feature,first create a file by following command in terminal
touch ~/.gtkrc-2.0
Then,edit the file by:
sudo gedit ~/.gtkrc-2.0
Add following,save and close the file
gtk-recent-files-max-age=0Restart gnome,the recent documents won’t appear anymore.
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Tags: desktop
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Thank you
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According to the official ubuntu documentation you should never use sudo for graphical applications, but only for command line ones.
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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo#Graphical%20sudo
Instead use gksudo.
Thanks for the guide though
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no need for sudo here at all, you are the owner of the file, just “gedit .gtkrc-2.0″
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thanks!!!
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