Prevent gnome-shell's dash from listing Recent Items

Gnome-shell uses recently-used and not Zeitgeist to display your recent items.

to disable it follow theses steps:

delete recently-used.xbel:

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

create a new empty file:

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

make sure the new file cannot be modified:

sudo chattr +i ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

now, your display of recent items is gone.

If you want to revert back, remove the i attribute of recently-used.xbel:

sudo chattr -i ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

all credits to : http://knezevblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-ubuntu-clear-and-disable-recent.html

There's also an extension Remove recent items search provider for removing the Recent Items provider now, as well.

Install " Activity Log Manager" using Synaptic and choose apps whose logs you wana see and whose not.

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