Thursday, May 21, 2009

Disable recent documents

Great News!
I had accepted Anbin to join my blog and I had joined his blog
Hope this will increase the knowledge we can share.

In Ubuntu there's a tab called recent document
Some people just don't like the recent document being show there
Because we don't want to tell people what we had just look into
So to disable it,
1. rm ~/.recently-used.xbel - This will remove the /home/username/.recently-used.xbel
2. touch ~/.recently-used.xbel - Recreate it
3. sudo chattr +i ~/.recently-used.xbel - This will lock the file permission

Then, clear the Recent Documents list
Now when you check Places/Recent Documents again, it should now be greyed.


If you do it correctly, it will be something like this.


It will be 0 Kb. To undo the permission use sudo chattr -i ~/.recently-used.xbel

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