Missing Recent Files menu option [SOLVED]

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Missing Recent Files menu option [SOLVED]

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I have just reinstalled with 18.3 to fix a problem that arose and everything is now working well except that the main Mint Menu is missing the Recent Files option. "Places" is there. How do I enable the Recent Files option. I've been through the menu configuration but do not find a solution there.
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Re: Missing Recent Files menu option

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Which desktop version are you using? Some desktops never had it. Cinnamon did, but no longer does in 18.3. There is an applet you can install to add Recent Files to the panel in XFCE, perhaps in whichever version you are using, too?
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Re: Missing Recent Files menu option

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jimallyn wrote: ⤴Thu Mar 29, 2018 3:40 am Cinnamon did, but no longer does in 18.3.
Not quite true. To show the history in the menu you have to open the privacy settings of the system and activate the function. What 18.3 (Cinnamon 3.6) has changed is, that this is off by default; but it is still there.
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Re: Missing Recent Files menu option

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Cosmo. wrote: ⤴Thu Mar 29, 2018 5:46 am
jimallyn wrote: ⤴Thu Mar 29, 2018 3:40 am Cinnamon did, but no longer does in 18.3.
Not quite true. To show the history in the menu you have to open the privacy settings of the system and activate the function. What 18.3 (Cinnamon 3.6) has changed is, that this is off by default; but it is still there.
Perfect! Thank you. I would never have found this on my own.
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Re: Missing Recent Files menu option

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Cool, now please mark the thread as [SOLVED] in the title of the first post. Thanks! :)
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Re: Missing Recent Files menu option [SOLVED]

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Thanks Cosmo. Your reply has solved the problem for me too.
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