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Darkzom

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Registered: 2011-03-15

Posts: 28

Weird question about GNOME3 and its new search function

Ok, it may sound a little strange and I fear for your answers but here is the question...

Is there any way to make gnome3 not to search for ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING when "typing to search" in the menu?

I mean, for god's sake, I was testing all the menus and so on, and suddenly typed "3" and a pair of NSFW movies showed up in the screen. WTF????!!! xD

Is there a way to stop it showing recently opened files? XDD

I do not like this "feature"....

proxima_centauri

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From: Nova Scotia, Canada

Registered: 2008-07-17

Posts: 117

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Re: Weird question about GNOME3 and its new search function

You can remove recent documents by deleting this

rm ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

You can stop logging all recent documents by creating a folder there, i.e.,

mkdir ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

Some tutorials recommend making that folder un-modifiable, but I'm not sure it's necessary

chattr +i ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

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Darkzom

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Registered: 2011-03-15

Posts: 28

Re: Weird question about GNOME3 and its new search function

Whoa, thanks a lot, it fixed it hehehe.

In gnome 2 i used to clear manually recent files, but in gnome 3 I don't think there is such an option...

Is there a way to make it record only certain filetypes? Or to exclude certain ones? Or maybe to make gnome-shell not to show previews of movies in the shell?

Thx again!!!