This tutorial will explain how to disable Recent Documents in Places in Ubuntu 10.04
Open the terminal and run the following commands
Create .gtkrc-2.0 file in your home directory
$touch ~/.gtkrc-2.0
Edit .gtkrc-2.0 file
$gedit ~/.gtkrc-2.0
Add the following line
gtk-recent-files-max-age=0
Save and exit the file
You can also use ubuntu tweak for this
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Nice! I did this up to Karmic by making “.recently-used.xbel” a directory instead of a file, but that causes just about everything to complain when it runs. I’ll give this a shot.
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The best way I find is to use Ubuntu Tweak.
Go to Gnome Settings, and uncheck Enable system-wide “Recent documents list”
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Thanks.
In the past I’d used chattr on .recently-used.xbel, but there were always annoying error messages that frightened the easily frighten-able.
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Sorry, I cannot do this. I get “permission denied” as root.
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I am root (sudo -i) and after following your instructions I get “permission denied”. I have also the file. This does not work, but my documents unfortunately still do.
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This works just fine, thanks.
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It Works super fine.. Thanks.
@ People,
Just create a file in your home directory. There’s no need to be root.
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Not working since 10.10
Any solutions?
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Nice. It worked for me. Ubuntu 10.10. =)
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