GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 143821
'recent files' disapear after opening a file
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
This bug has been reported in the Debian BTS: http://bugs.debian.org/250837 "In the 'file' menu, gedit shows the last few files you've edited. If you open a file however, this list disappears. Creating a new window (by opening a second file and moving it to a new window using the right mouse button menu e.g.) makes the list appear again in both windows. Opening a file makes it disappear again in both windows." Same problem here. Just select a file in the recent list to reproduce the problem
I get this problem as well. Here's what gedit prints to the terminal after opening a recent files entry: ** (gedit:3201): WARNING **: Failed to lock: Resource temporarily unavailable
I removed ~/.recently-used and this appears to have gone away.
bug #135452 is another symptom of the same problem, I'm marking as dup and adding a note there about the fact that the list disappears *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135452 ***