Steps are as follows :--
- Go to Places-->Recent Documents-->Clear Recent Documents.
- Open the Terminal.(Applications-->Accessories-->Terminal)
- Enter this in the terminal. rm ~/.recently-used.xbel
- Followed by touch ~/.recently-used.xbel
- Then sudo chattr +i ~/.recently-used.xbel. After entering this in the terminal, you will be prompted for password. Enter the password and press [Enter].
From now on, recent document list will never be displayed. I mean it will be always greyed. That means Recent Documents menu is disabled.
To re-enable Recent document menu, just open the terminal and enter this command.
sudo chattr -i ~/.recently-used.xbel
What exactly happens when u carry out steps as shown above?
- We first removed the file recently-used.xbel located in the root of your Home directory by using the rm command. This file is used to store the list of documents.
- Next we re-created the file using the touch command.
- Then we changed the attribute of the file to make it inaccessible using the command chattr +i.
