lucaswerkmeister/clean-recently-used

Clean directories from the list of recently used files (on Linux desktop systems)

Clean Recently Used

Linux desktop systems maintain a list of recently used files. This program lets you filter that list, removing all entries below one or more directories.

One-time usage

To remove all entries below /tmp or /var/tmp from the list, run:

cargo run /tmp /var/tmp

Periodic usage

This repository includes a pair of systemd user units that can be used to clean the list periodically. Install them with:

make install
systemctl --user daemon-reload

Then enable the timer for a certain path like so:

systemctl --user enable --now "clean-recently-used@$(systemd-escape -p /tmp).timer"

This will clean /tmp from the recently-used file every hour. (If you want to clean more than one directory at once, you will need to write a custom service unit.)

License

Blue Oak Model License 1.0.0.