This is rather handy, but I find that it lists too few items.
You can control the maximum age and/or number of remembered "recently used" items by putting these settings somewhere like ~/.gtkrc-2.0
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gtk-recent-files-max-age=90
gtk-recent-files-limit=200
The main limitation is supposed to be that programs can choose to ignore the setting and only show however many items their authors choose*
I'm not sure how common a problem that is (perhaps very common - see below).
I have only just found out how to do this, so I don't know things like how it responds to using very large numbers. I'm also wondering if other programs like X session managers might override the settings and trim the recently used list. In my current system I've only ever noticed 10 items displayed in the list**, although there may be a few more (currently 13) actually stored in ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
BTW, you can manually delete items by editing ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
I've seen references to ~/.recently-used.xbel instead, but it doesn't seem to be used in my system.
My system also has a file in a different format called ~/.recently-used, which seems to be used by some Mono programs and perhaps openoffice when it isn't configured to use the GTK open/save dialogues.
* I think programs can choose to not write to the recently used list as well.
** According to http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/2.24./Gt ... es-max-age the defaults are supposed to be 50 and 30.