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Can't increase the number of recent documents in gedit

Ask Ubuntu Asked by Os Meservo on December 15, 2020

After upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-bit my list of recent documents in gedit returned to the default 10 only.

Normally this could be easily changed with dconf, but now dconf can’t find the ui max-recents schema for gedit.

I would appreciate any help.

One Answer

This option has been removed in recent versions of gedit, so the dconf key was also removed.

A workaround is to use the Quick Open plugin, which shows more than 10 recent files. As a bonus, you can also search for files with it.

Install, if you haven't already the gedit-plugins package, which contains the Quick Open plugin along with a bunch of other useful plugins:

sudo apt install gedit-plugins

To enable the plugin click the hamburger menu PreferencesPlugins and enable Quick Open (see screenshot below).

enable Quick Open

After that press Ctrl+Alt+O to open a window which shows your recently opened files and also allows to search for files to open.

Quick Open

Answered by BeastOfCaerbannog on December 15, 2020

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