Recent documents are automatically cleared

[colibris79]

Hi,
I am using Mint 17.3 Mate and these have been happening for a while and I have no idea why or what triggers it. After some time (a few days) the recent documents are cleared automatically (and in other apps like Pluma). Does anyone experience the same? and more important, how to stop it?
Thanks

[Pierre]

well, on this 17x Mate - nothing is cleared from history,
which is a bit of a pain, as it has to be cleared manually.

has anyone else have this issue?

[colibris79]

well, on this 17x Mate - nothing is cleared from history,
which is a bit of a pain, as it has to be cleared manually.

Hi, Pierre. Well, that's exactly what I would like to happen
The problem is that I have no clue about when this happens.

[colibris79]

Ok, now I have discovered when it happens. Whenever I open Pluma as superuser from terminal or open a document with Pluma from terminal, I edit and I save it. My recent documents are gone. For example:

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sudo pluma /home/user/doc.txt

Or

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sudo pluma

[jimallyn]

I believe you should be using gksudo rather than sudo for starting graphical programs. Otherwise, the ownership of your files will be changed to root. You might have a look at this:

viewtopic.php?t=228412

[colibris79]

I believe you should be using gksudo rather than sudo for starting graphical programs. Otherwise, the ownership of your files will be changed to root. You might have a look at this:

viewtopic.php?t=228412

Maybe that was a bad example. But when I edit config files I need to be superuser.

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sudo pluma /etc/rc.local

Thanks for the info, with gksudo does not happen, so great!