Public bug reported:
Pretty simple it seems.
clickwir@ruger10-22:~/.local/share$ ls -lah recently-used.xbel
-rw------- 1 clickwir clickwir 1.2K 2012-01-02 16:00 recently-used.xbel
clickwir@ruger10-22:~/.local/share$ sudo chown root recently-used.xbel
clickwir@ruger10-22:~/.local/share$ sudo chgrp root recently-used.xbel
clickwir@ruger10-22:~/.local/share$ sudo chmod +rwrr recently-used.xbel
clickwir@ruger10-22:~/.local/share$ ls -lah recently-used.xbel
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2K 2012-01-02 16:00 recently-used.xbel
I then happened to be using ClamTk to scan some Windows folders. I click
the SCAN menu and then RECURSIVE SCAN, then select a directory.
Magically...
clickwir@ruger10-22:~/.local/share$ ls -lah recently-used.xbel
-rw------- 1 clickwir clickwir 1.7K 2012-01-02 16:19 recently-used.xbel
As you can see from the time stamp, it happened just now as I'm filling
this out.
Maybe I see it as obvious, but I don't think that a file that is owned
by root and only writeable should be taken over by my user. I don't want
recently-used.xbel. I don't ever want it to be populated, so I figured
deleting it, touching it and chown/chgrp would prevent my user from
taking it. I've done similar actions before with other files that were
automatically handled by an application that I didn't want modified by
my user, but readable.
Maybe someone could shed some more light on why it's done this way (if
it's supposed to be done like this) and if so, how I can get rid of that
damn recently used file.
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lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
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I don't know which package or part of XFCE is responsible for handling this
file. I'm using XFCE 4.8.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: chown recently-used.xbel xfce xfce4
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xfce4 overwrites ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel even chowned as
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