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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This article was originally written on 06/27/07 Tagged with: Ubuntu

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Comments (9)

1. July 1, 2007 12:53 am
   TARUN

   Please tell me how to clear the recent documents list in the gnome menu documents tab in opensue 10.2

2. August 21, 2007 10:43 pm
   Nick

   Thanks, this helped a lot.

3. August 25, 2007 1:20 pm
   larry

   then do i have to restart my computer

4. September 5, 2007 1:04 pm
   bobba

   no you dont larry

   Worked a treat, nice one

5. February 14, 2008 1:00 am
   north

   Thanks that did the trick I thought it was a bug in the program.

6. March 7, 2008 7:36 pm
   Victor M. Villarruel

   Great job. I truly admire the great job of Ubuntu fans. Keep up the good work.

   Victor
   villarruelvictor@hotmail.com

7. June 14, 2008 4:21 pm
   Steve

   Thanks for the tip!

8. July 1, 2008 2:54 pm
   FantaGuy

   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

9. May 4, 2009 3:17 am
   Piraja

   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.