Let's see, how we can fix that in Ubuntu (11.10).
Luckily, nearly all questionable history (movies watched, documents opened, ...) are recorded in the same file named recently-used.xbel .
Do the following commands to delete the file containing history, and then recreate an empty file with same name:
sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/recentyl-used.xbel
sudo touch ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
Your history is now clear, but any new actions will be noted in the file, so further modification is needed to stop that.
This will disable history logging:
sudo chattr +i ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
This will enable historry logging (if you change your mind later on):
sudo chattr -i ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
I'll post about clearing Terminal history tomorrow.-
Seems easy enough.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know, thanks!
ReplyDeleteI haven't used Ubuntu in awhile, but this will come in handy someday.
ReplyDeleteConcise instructions, nice job
ReplyDeleteI was wondering how for awhile. thanks
ReplyDeleteI probably won't remember that if I need it, hopefully I'll remember where to find out!
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