Ubuntu – How to delete history of Totem and Gedit in gnome shell

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How can I delete history of Totem and Gedit in gnome shell?

I can not find a menu option to do this, unlike in gnome 2.

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You can find both recent-used.xbel and the totem folder in the following locations;

your home folder
.local/share folder

If you delete the recent-used.xbel file and the totem folder, all of the history of your general applications and totem will be deleted.

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Ubuntu – How to delete totem’s history

Recent Document history for many Gnome 2 based applications are held in a file in your home folder called .local/share/recently-used.xbel

Either use the Launcher "Home Folder" - select the menu option "View - Show Hidden Files" and navigate to the .local/share folder and delete the file "recently-used.xbel"

Alternatively from the command line

rm ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

If you really want to stop recent document history from showing up for your login account then create a file with your favourite Text Editor called .gtkrc-2.0 and save this file in your home folder.

Alternatively from the command line

gedit ~/.gtkrc-2.0

In that file, include on a separate line

gtk-recent-files-max-age = 0

Ubuntu – How to set encoding in gedit 3.2

I don't have a file encoded in GBK to test the solutions, but do try them.

Option 1: Run gedit and then open the file:

run gedit
click open
select in the encoding combo "add" and add GB18030 (or GBK)
select that encoding in the combo
select the file

Option 2:

install and run gconf-editor
Find /apps/gedit-2/preferences/encoding key "auto_detected" and set it to:
```
[CURRENT,GB18030,GBK,GB2312,UTF-8,UTF-16]
```

Remember to backup the previous value of auto_detected!!

Option 3: Using dconf (the "newer" gconf, used in ubuntu)

dconf read /org/gnome/gedit/preferences/encodings/auto-detected

Save the result (backup)!

dconf write /org/gnome/gedit/preferences/encodings/auto-detected "['CURRENT', 'GBK', 'GB18030', 'GB2312', 'UTF-8', 'UTF-16']"

Sources:

To reset it to default: a) use the option you backed up from dconf read command

or b) try:

dconf reset /org/gnome/gedit/preferences/encodings/auto-detected

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