Comments on: Disable Recent Documents in Gnome 2.22.3

By: DW

DW — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:22:03 +0000

In GTK+ 2.24 works this: add two strings in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file

gtk-recent-files-limit=0
gtk-recent-files-max-age=0

By: cor crane secret

cor crane secret — Sun, 15 May 2011 05:01:52 +0000

And here’s a simple script to toggle it:

##############################
### ~/bin/recent_documents ###
##############################
#!/bin/bash

if ! [ -d ~/.recently-used.xbel ]; then
mv ~/.recently-used.xbel ~/.recently-used.xbel.backup 2>/dev/null
mv ~/.recently-used ~/.recently-used.backup 2>/dev/null
mkdir ~/.recently-used.xbel && recent_status=”disabled”

else
rmdir ~/.recently-used.xbel && recent_status=”enabled”
mv ~/.recently-used.xbel.backup ~/.recently-used.xbel 2>/dev/null
mv ~/.recently-used.backup ~/.recently-used 2>/dev/null

[ "${recent_status}" ] && echo “Recent documents menu ${recent_status}.”

By: Heinz

Heinz — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:08:22 +0000

Oh, and of course all of this can be done with the file manager, too, for those who are console-phobic.

By: Heinz

Heinz — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:07:02 +0000

Thanks for posting this trick!