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Clear History from Totem Movie Player in Ubuntu
If you’ve been using the default movie player in Ubuntu to play videos, you might have noticed that there’s no way in the application to clear the recent history of watched movies. This could cause issues if you happened to open a video that you don’t want other people to see in your list.
Here’s Totem before I figured out how to clear the history:
Turns out, almost all of the applications in Gnome store their history in the same place, and it can be cleared by clearing the recent documents on the Gnome menu.
Just go to the Places menu and Recent Documents \ Clear Recent Documents
You’ll get a confirmation message asking if you really want to do this.
Of course we did, and now the list is gone from Totem.
Ahh, much better. Wouldn’t want anybody to know I was watching The Simpsons, afterall.
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- Published 06/27/07
Please tell me how to clear the recent documents list in the gnome menu documents tab in opensue 10.2
Thanks, this helped a lot.
then do i have to restart my computer
no you dont larry
Worked a treat, nice one ;)
Thanks that did the trick I thought it was a bug in the program.
Great job. I truly admire the great job of Ubuntu fans. Keep up the good work.
Victor
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Thanks for the tip!
To disable this for good empty your recent documents and change your .recently-used file to be read only
chmod 400 $HOME/.recently-used
to revert
chmod 600 $HOME/.recently-used
In case you’re not using GNOME or just because such information might sometimes be valuable: Totem’s history and quite a few other items can be located also in a file called
.recently-used.xbel
and not in .recently-used.
How to go to Places menu so that it will show Recently used?? I know this is a stupid question but at least in my Ubuntu there is no such thing. If I go to Files I can pick Places but it doesnt show Recently used. If I try to open a file in Totem I can see Recently used, but there is no way to clear them. Please help you can?
Using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, under the Places menu at the bottom exists a Recent Documents menu that has the clear option.
Thanks. This is a good topic.
Thanks a lot, really needed to clear all that porn from my cache before letting people borrow my pc
Thanks, I would have been owned tomorrow because I work with my very personal computer and as everybody know that pr0n and work don’t get along… I will build a “totem” in your honor
Thanks for the valuable tips
Thank’s
That not work on Ubuntu 11.04 Unity
Only problem is – I wanted to clear history from TOTEM movie player (as the title of this article claims), not ALL history in gnome
It’s like shooting a fly with a canon – you get the fly, but also the wall it’s on :-)
MODERATOR!! the end tag (end of <bookmark) is missing from my comment
I don't know if it was the BB that stripped it out. here it is again with 2 slashes.
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