GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 316813
No Recent Documents are shown after log in
Last modified: 2015-03-24 13:00:56 UTC
This bug has been opened here: http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15690 "No Recent Documents are shown just after logging in to Ubuntu Breezy. Only when a document gets added by opening a file, the complete list of recent documents under Computer->Recent Documents becomes visible again."
When I log in to Ubuntu Breezy (Gnome 2.12.0) the Recent Documents list (Places-->Recent Documents) isn't visible, but the Clear Recent Documents button is active (not greyed). This happens in spite of the fact that the .recently-used file is correctly chmod 600, and lists all the recently used files. The Recent Documents list becomes visible again as soon as a new file is opened or, for example, if I change the icon set in system-->preferences-->theme-->theme details
this is due to the changes from the 2005-05-02 by markmc
Sebastien: I can't find an easy way to reproduce. You said you could reproduce using another wm/desktop, am I right? But does it happen with just GNOME?
I've said it happens with GNOME. I get it using wmaker too. As said I runned it from wmaker to make sure than no other GNOMish stuff mess with the recently-used, from wmaker I just start the panel so the bug comes from it. From my gnome account a gnome-session-remove gnome-panel && gnome-panel is enough to get the issue.
Weird. It doesn't always happen for me... Is there some output on the terminal? Does it happen with all .recently-used files?
no output and I've not noted anything special about the .recently-used
I get this problem too. I managed to fix it by deleting all my GNOME and Gconf-related hidden files in my home directory (don't do this unless you're feeling daring or bored), so my guess is that there's a setting somewhere in GNOME that lets you hide it at each login.
*** Bug 320057 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I've also noticed the following---but I don't know if it may be relevant: When you click the Clear Recent Documents button, the following msg window shows up: ---------- Clear the Recent Documents list? If you clear the Recent Documents list, you clear the following: - All items from the Places-->Recent Documents menu item - All items from the recent documents list in all applications ----------- Well, that's not true. For example, in Ubuntu 5.10 (final release) that uses Gnome Panel 2.12.1, the recent documents list in such other applications as OpenOffice Writer 2 is still there, full of recently opened files, whether you click the Clear Recent Documents button or not. PS: i wonder why this issue is still unconfirmed
I've noticed that Recent Documents are _always_ visible if a location is bookmarked and added to Places. The bug doesn't seem to be active since I added /var/www to Places (Ubuntu Breezy--- Gnome Panel 2.12.1)
Adding to 2.14.x milestone.
Patrick: I don't know how OOo handles its list of recently files. Maybe it doesn't use the standard way ;-) Also, I don't see why a having a bookmark would help. This is weird. Do people who see this bug have bookmarks?
Vincent: I had this problem too with a plain Ubuntu 5.10. I can confirm that the problem disappeared after creating a bookmark. I even could delete the bookmark afterwards without having the problem re-occur. Other workarounds that worked for me (but only until the next boot), are: - opening one of the recent documents - touching the .recently-used file
*** Bug 331297 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #12) I have never used bookmarks, and I have had always this bug in Ubuntu Breezy. Last night I read you all, created a bookmark, removed it and on logging in again everything works fine. It is a very odd solution. I can not understand how that it is related to the recent documents list.
(In reply to comment #12) > Patrick: I don't know how OOo handles its list of recently files. Maybe it > doesn't use the standard way ;-) > > Also, I don't see why a having a bookmark would help. This is weird. Do people > who see this bug have bookmarks? > At the time, no I didn't. I notice that making a bookmark does indeed fix it. The question, as stated by several other here, is why you would need to do that in the first place. Very odd behaviour.
still happening
seems to be fixed, might be to gnome-menus distro patch we use to make it use gnome-vfs for notification stuff...
This sunny morning, with gnome 2.14 and dapper flight 6, still the same behaviour...well, i checked now, and recent documents is filled. I really can't figure out wich operation made them active again.
Just using Ubuntu Dapper Beta (Gnome Panel 2.14.1). This bug no longer turns up on logging in (I'm pretty sure of that as I've been using the OS for some days). Things are ok on the whole, only on a couple of occasions the Recent Documents list hid again while I was using the system. I still can't figure out why that happened. Anyway, no bug on logging in.
Other similar bug: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/44940 "Recent Documents Show Nothing But "Clear Documents" I'm running latest dapper on x86. Many times, I only see one menu entry in "Recent Documents": Clear Recent Documents. I'm looking for a way to reproduce this consistantly. Can anyone else find a way to consistantly reporoduce this?"
Bug pops up again when some USB device gets mounted. Before mounting the USB device the list is full, after mounting it the list appears empty. But I have got to confirm my previous comment (# 20): no bug on logging in. I'm now running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Gnome Panel 2.14.1)
(In reply to comment #22) I have the same problem on mounting a CD. At the moment, on logging in I haven't had the bug again.
Hi. I'm using Gentoo and I also have this problem. I'm using gnome 2.14.2 and the "Recent Documents" menu appears with only the "Clear Recent Documents" everytime I log in and plug/inplug a USB pen. To get the documents back in the list I have to open any document, but it beats the purpose of having a "Recent Documents" place. Any ideas if this is happening in gnome 2.16?
It seems that this long problem has been solved in Gnome 2.16. I have been using Ubuntu Edgy for a week and I have noticed no bug. Well, one year is not so much :) I am not that brave to close it.
This works in 2.16.