[SOLVED] Disable and Clear Gnome-MPlayer History

MetalheadGautham · 2009-02-07 13:33:44

Well, how do I do that ?
I HATE it when unwanted stuff is logged by the media player.

Last edited by MetalheadGautham (2009-02-08 03:58:33)

Roberth · 2009-02-07 15:18:24

Hmmmm let me I guess what the unwanted stuff is....

skottish · 2009-02-07 16:01:56

Unless I'm missing something, I believe that the history is stored in ~/.recently-used.xbel along with everything else that uses the freedesktop.org specification. I think that the simplest solution that won't kill the history of everything else would be to write a launcher script.

MetalheadGautham · 2009-02-07 19:05:49

skottish wrote:

Unless I'm missing something, I believe that the history is stored in ~/.recently-used.xbel along with everything else that uses the freedesktop.org specification. I think that the simplest solution that won't kill the history of everything else would be to write a launcher script.

I DONT want a history in anything except firefox where its actually useful.

Would it be better if I write protect that file so that no app stores history ?

Edit: I erazed and write protected recently-used.xbel and recently-used files and write protected them. Still Gnome MPlayer shows history.

Last edited by MetalheadGautham (2009-02-07 19:12:54)

skottish · 2009-02-07 19:17:49

I'm not 100% that's the only place info is stored, but I could find it anywhere else.

The only solution that I saw when looking into this is to delete the file and create a directory of the same name. I read that a lot of errors will appear on the console, but it works.

MetalheadGautham · 2009-02-08 03:48:13

skottish wrote:

I'm not 100% that's the only place info is stored, but I could find it anywhere else.
The only solution that I saw when looking into this is to delete the file and create a directory of the same name. I read that a lot of errors will appear on the console, but it works.

Yeah, but I just write protected and made files read-only.

But the history is STILL not deleted

The files are fully empty. HOW can this happen ?

Edit:

Mousepad, the editor used for opening the files, itself is one of the files' users. So it won't permit me to eraze the file.
Instead, I don't write protect but READ protect the file.

Now, OpenOffice, Mousepad, Gnome MPlayer and almost ALL other software can't have history.

Problem SOLVED. :D:D

Last edited by MetalheadGautham (2009-02-08 03:57:49)

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#1 2009-02-07 13:33:44

[SOLVED] Disable and Clear Gnome-MPlayer History

#2 2009-02-07 15:18:24

Re: [SOLVED] Disable and Clear Gnome-MPlayer History

#3 2009-02-07 16:01:56

Re: [SOLVED] Disable and Clear Gnome-MPlayer History

#4 2009-02-07 19:05:49

Re: [SOLVED] Disable and Clear Gnome-MPlayer History

#5 2009-02-07 19:17:49

Re: [SOLVED] Disable and Clear Gnome-MPlayer History

#6 2009-02-08 03:48:13

Re: [SOLVED] Disable and Clear Gnome-MPlayer History

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