Clearing Recent opened files

[als123]

Hi All,

I just can't shake my Windoze paranoia and still clear all my personal data from firefox on close.

What I'd like to do also, is clear all my recently used files in the programs, like the word processor, Gimp, etc...

I usually could find them by searching for files that contain the name of the file on the list. Unfortunately, this diid not work.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Maybe after I get a little more comfortable using Ubuntu with LXDE, I'll return it to normal.

Thanks.

[bulkley]

Those are hidden files. They have a . in front of them. In a terminal do ls -al. In pcmanfm check the box which says show hidden files.

That said, individual programs have their own means to erase their history. For Firefox, I would suggest you visit Uwe Hermann He will show you how to make FF more secure, usable and bearable. I don't know about the other programs you listed.

You need a firewall.

[als123]

Thanks,

Ant idea where to look for the individual files, like for the image viewer?

I've got firestarter up and running, that's a whole nother posting, but so far so good

[Marty Jack]

As a general rule, every program keeps its own recently-used list. If you poke around with ls -al and find . -exec grep -H some-recently-used-file-that-shows-up-in-the-menu {} \; you will probably find most of them under .config somewhere. I have a homebrew script that I run once a week right before I back up to optical.

[craigevil]

Might take a look at bleachbit:
Description: delete unnecessary files from the system
BleachBit deletes unnecessary files to free valuable disk space, maintain
privacy and remove junk. It removes caches, temporary files, cookies and
broken shortcuts.

It handles Bash, Beagle, Epiphany, Firefox, Flash, Java, KDE, OpenOffice.org,
Opera, RealPlayer, rpmbuild, VIM, XChat, and more.
Homepage: http://bleachbit-project.appspot.com/

[archibald haddock]

Hi All,

I just can't shake my Windoze paranoia and still clear all my personal data from firefox on close.

You can configure firefox to do so. Edit->Preferences->Privacy->Use custom settings for history->Clear history when firefox closes

[Ghost_Archer]

see if
echo "" > .local/share/recently-used.xbel
can solve the problem

[Rex Bouwense]

Welcome Ghost_Archer. While the thread was not closed, the last post in it was made almost four years ago and many things change in that time; OS versions, components, Linux Kernels, etc. You are quite welcome to post and we encourage it, but I would stick to recent posts so members can benefit from your input. Once again, welcome aboard.