Clearing the "history" of xfrun4?

Edscott Wilson Garcia edscott at xfce.org
Mon Mar 27 23:42:38 CEST 2006




On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Timothy White wrote:

> $ locate xfrun_history
> /home/tim/.xfce4/xfrun_history
>
> It can also be in .config/xfce4/xfrun_history.
>
> Not sure why, but xfrun wasn't getting my history from them. Strace
> reveals another file... (The first below is a xffm one)
> $ locate runlist
> /home/tim/.xfce4/xffm/xffm.runlist.2.dbh
> /home/tim/.cache/xfce4/xfce4-modules/runlist.2.dbh
>
> Removing that second file, cleared my history... (Something I've been
> meaning to do for awhile)
>
> On that note, how does that file decide what to display first, and why
> are we using some DB format, instead of the old plain text format?
>

For efficient recall of complete history for autocompletion. This feature 
is gone from xfrun-4.4 but if you miss it you can have it from 
xffm-run-4.3.4



> Tim
>
> On 3/27/06, Peter N. Spotts <pspotts at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> Is there a way to clear the history of xfrun4? Nothing urgent -- just a
>> bit of digital housecleaning, since the dropdown history window
>> continues to show programs that no longer live on my computer. (Games
>> just got too distracting ;-)  )
>
>
>
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