Remove Recent Documents in Ubuntu
Something I always find myself looking for when I setup a new installation of Ubuntu (really it’s a problem with Gnome) is how to turn off the recent documents list. There are two ways to do this.
1) Open a terminal (hit alt-f2 and type gnome-terminal) and input the following two commands
sudo rm .recently-used.xbel
sudo mkdir .recently-used.xbel
This will remove the file gnome stores the recently used document list and create a directory in it’s place, so it can’t be recreated.
2) Another and probably preferable option is to again open a terminal and type the following:
gksudo gedit ~/.gtkrc-2.0
this will open the gedit document editor so you can add something to the gtkrc-2.0 file. Now add the line:
gtk-recent-files-max-age=0
Now you just need to save the document, exit and you are done.
