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Asked: 2011-05-05 12:23:37 +0800 CST

How do I delete totem's history?

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How do I delete totem's history displayed in it's main menu in Natty? For example if I don't want anyone to know I'm watching... ehem Simpsons a lot?

I've tried How can I keep recent files from appearing in Unity? but this doesnt work for Totem.

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  1. 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
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  2. If you want to permanently remove the recent file list from totem, edit /usr/share/totem/totem.ui as root and change to following line:

    <separator name="recent-separator"/>
<placeholder name="recent-placeholder"/>

    into

    <!--<separator name="recent-separator"/>
<placeholder name="recent-placeholder"/>-->

    If you want to reactive history later, all you have to do is remove the part that you added.

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  3. In Unity: go to "Dash Home", search for "System Settings" and then choose "Privacy" -> "Recent Items". Change the time interval and press "Delete history". With the button on the bottom you can turn off recording of your activity at all, however many programs will ignore it.

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  4. Well, that will delete the Zeitgeist history (including Dash) but oddly not the history in Totems main menu. Seems like Totem is saving some kind of own history.

    So this is not a duplicate of "How can I keep recent files from appearing in Unity?".

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  5. Just to 'clear' all history, (but not to 'disable' history from being listed)

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

    The first one destroys everything zeitigeist has in your home folder second and third just delete the recentest version of the "recently-used.xbel"

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  6. You can clear the Zeitgeist history (this is the history of recent files that's display in Dash) by using the following commands:

    rm ~/.local/share/zeitgeist/activity.sqlite

zeitgeist-daemon --replace

    note: it will clear all the other recent files as well.

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  7. Heres my workaround: Log off, log in again with "classic ubuntu" (http://www.robotsystematic.com/2011/linux/ubuntu-natty-gnome-2-interface) and clear recent documents as you did in Maverick. When you log in next time to unity-ubuntu, the history of totem is cleared there, too.

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  8. If you install Bleachbit from http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/

    Once installed, you select what you want cleaned from the system, this inclused Totem cache & history.

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  9. Go to Places -> Recent Documents and clear the list.

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  10. Nowadays Totem now uses Gnome Tracker to pick what videos to display in the Recent tab. According to https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker/Documentation/First5Minutes, Tracker's db can be cleared by running tracker-control -r

    You can also run tracker-preferences, System tab and click the "Yes, remove all of my indexed data" button.

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