We wrote about disabling your Recent Documents in Gnome using a little trick but that doesn't work if using BleachBit for instance, because it deletes the .recently-used.xbel folder so the recent documents will be displayed again. So to solve this, here is what to do:
We must edit the .gtkrc-2.0 file:
And add the following line:
This will disable your Recent Documents in Gnome:
sudo gedit ~/.gtkrc-2.0
And add the following line:
gtk-recent-file-max-age=0
This will disable your Recent Documents in Gnome:
![recent files gnome](http://www.netupd8.com/w8img/246q4pe.jpg)
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