Can recent location at edit menu NOT be shown?

Asked by Richard Dickinson

I would like not to see the recently opened file locations in the edit menu. Is this possible? If so how?
Can this feature be turned off & on?
Grateful for advice-thanks

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Richard Dickinson (richard-dickinson350) said :
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Hi
Thanks for the reply with link. I tried the fix ie <!--placeholder name="recent-placeholder"/--> in totem.ui but it has NOT worked for me.
Any idea why & what I can try next please?
Thanks

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said :
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Please open /usr/share/totem/totem.ui in a text editor, copy its contents to the clipboard (Edit > Select All; Edit > Copy), and then paste it at http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/. Click Paste! and you'll get a URL for the text. Post that URL here, and we can examine the file to see what may have gone wrong. The file is very long, so please don't attempt to paste its contents here directly.

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said :
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Also, I would encourage you to report the absence of this essential privacy feature as a bug in Totem in Ubuntu. If you wish to do this, it is important that you first read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs carefully. Then, after searching at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bugs to see if this has already been reported as a bug / feature request, do Help > Report a Problem... in Totem.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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You can log a bug much easier with:

ubuntu-bug totem

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said :
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(1) Most people do not find manually running commands to be easier. Furthermore, using Help > Report a Problem... is *officially* endorsed as being preferable to running the ubuntu-bug command, in cases where it is applicable.

(2) It's fine to use actionparsnip's way, but you still have to read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs carefully first, and you still should search for bugs reports that already describe your situation.

(3) (This point is *not* relevant to your *present* issue.) When you have a bug that pertains to the running state of your program--for example, the program is not working correctly, it is taking too long to do something, or the like--then using "ubuntu-bug totem" would *not* be a good way to report the bug. In that case, you should use Help > Report a Problem... if possible, but if conditions prevent you from doing that, then you could use the equally good way of running "ubuntu-bug N" where N is the process ID of the Totem process. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs explains how to obtain this.

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Richard Dickinson (richard-dickinson350) said :
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Hi Eliah & actionparsnip
Thank you so much for your helpful replies.
I have solved this now. I apologise but I had mistakenly edited the wrong line in totem.ui (I did line 526 -it needed to be line 434!).
I apologise for my mistake & now I have edited correctly this has removed recent places from the menu-all good & Totem is a fine program!
Thanks & best wishes

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Richard Dickinson (richard-dickinson350) said :
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Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.