Gnome Files¶

How To Disable Recent Files Manually¶

Create or edit the GTK 3 "settings.ini" by adding two lines to the file as follows.

$ nano ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

gtk-recent-files-max-age=0
gtk-recent-files-limit=0

How To Disable Recent Files via Gnome Settings¶

1. Open Gnome Settings.
2. Go to "Privacy" > "File History & Trash"
3. Disable "File History" by left mouse clicking on the toggle button.
4. Left mouse click on the "Clear History..." button.
5. Close Gnome Settings.