HOW-TO: Enable and Disable the Recently Used Menu in Gnome

[kryth]

Doesn't seem to work in Gusty.

[jochem_]

Doesn't seem to work in Gusty.

What I did was make the file immutable

sudo chattr +i recently-used.xbel

I am using Debian, but I guess this will work for you too.

[achelis]

Last method works in Gutsy.. Thanks for that

Is there no way to completely remove it from the "Places"-menu? This seems more like a hack that breaks the functionality rather than disabling it..

[almalaci]

Mind the missing '.' at the beginning of the filename.
It seems to work for me too on Gutsy.
And how do you change the command to re-enable it?

[PsyWolf]

What I did was make the file immutable

sudo chattr +i .recently-used.xbel

I am using Debian, but I guess this will work for you too.

Yea this worked for me in Hardy. There should be an option to turn this off more easily though.

[johnnylavah]

What I did was make the file immutable

sudo chattr +i recently-used.xbel

I am using Debian, but I guess this will work for you too.

this worked well on hardy, thank you! do you know how to reverse the effect so recent documents is re-enabled?

[tmetzcc325]

I haven't tried this, but I think you would just need to run the same command, but with a -i instead of +i. Could be wrong, though.

[anonymous_user]

What I did was make the file immutable

sudo chattr +i recently-used.xbel

I am using Debian, but I guess this will work for you too.

Thank you =D>

[croddy]

Glad I found this thread. Great tip. I created it as a directory and it finally stopped working.

Even when I chmod'ed it 000, some surreptitious background process cheerfully removed it and recreated it for me. Creating the directory seems to break whatever brain-damaged, overly-aggressive nonsense is forcibly inserting .recently-used.xbel into our rectums.

It's a shame, too, because I'd use it... if I could stick it in ~/Private, but apparently it's not allowed to be a symlink.

[fifth_rune]

If I use the method where I remove the file and create a directory in its place, is there any way to undo that? I keep trying to get rid of the new directory but it won't let me (operation not permitted, even when I am root). Any help?