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#1 2006-12-01 22:27:26

Acid7711
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Disable Gnome Recent Documents [solved]

I realize there is a menu editor in Gnome, however it won't let me edit the Places menu. I want to get rid of Recent Documents, Connect to Server, and Cd/Dvd creator.  Is this possible? I'm new to using gnome and don't know my way around it very much yet (kde convert but looooving the speed improvement:D)

I've edited the System and Applications menu to my liking. I've tried asking around, my buddy said under his Ubuntu he could edit all the menus, but now that I converted him to Arch he has the same question and couldn't find an answer.

Thanks in advance! smile

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#2 2006-12-02 08:24:14

luca
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Re: Disable Gnome Recent Documents [solved]

Hi Acid7711,
you can install "Alacarte"; it's a menu editor for gnome:

pacman -S alacarte

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#3 2006-12-02 19:56:35

Acid7711
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Re: Disable Gnome Recent Documents [solved]

Thanks for the tip, but this is what I've been using to edit the menus. I still see no place to edit the "Places" menu. : /

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#4 2006-12-02 20:29:25

z3ppelin
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Re: Disable Gnome Recent Documents [solved]

Acid7711 wrote:

Thanks for the tip, but this is what I've been using to edit the menus. I still see no place to edit the "Places" menu. : /

As far as I know it's not possible to do that.

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#5 2006-12-02 21:03:22

Acid7711
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Re: Disable Gnome Recent Documents [solved]

I found a  way to effectively disable the recent documents. This should suffice my needs for now.

$ rm .recently-used.xbel
$ mkdir .recently-used.xbel

It's a bit nasty, but it works.

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#6 2006-12-03 00:17:50

Martyr
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Re: Disable Gnome Recent Documents [solved]

It's a bit nasty, but it works.

Thanks for this workaround, been searching for something like this for quite some time. Much appreciated.  smile

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#7 2006-12-03 09:37:38

Acid7711
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Re: Disable Gnome Recent Documents [solved]

Not a problem smile Glad I could help. It's an ugly little hack, but it's still working great for me. You'll get some occasional bash errors, but it works for me and what I want it to do.

I'm sure there is a better way to take care of it, but it's out of sight and out of mind smile  I myself was looking for a way to do this for a while and came across no answers until I started looking at all the hidden files.  There's another xml file like it, but it seems the xbel takes preference.

Whatever works right? wink

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