Bugzilla – Bug 1216969
Recent Applications and Recent Files are no longer updated
Last modified: 2024-06-02 12:21:18 UTC
Recent Applications and Recent Files are no longer updated in KDE's Application menu. The links are existing in .local/share/RecentDocuments, though. Didn't find any directory for Recent Apps. Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20231106 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.9 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.111.0 Qt Version: 5.15.11 Kernel Version: 6.5.9-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz Memory: 15,0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Xe Graphics Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: XPS 13 9310 2-in-1
.local/share/recently-used.xbel contains entries for the recently used files, too.
Still exists with Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20231121 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.9 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.112.0 Qt Version: 5.15.11 Kernel Version: 6.6.2-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz Memory: 15,0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Xe Graphics Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: XPS 13 9310 2-in-1
Problem still exists with Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20231207 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.112.0 Qt Version: 5.15.11 Kernel Version: 6.6.3-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz Memory: 15,0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Xe Graphics Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: XPS 13 9310 2-in-1
Still exists with Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20231217 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.113.0 Qt Version: 5.15.11 Kernel Version: 6.6.6-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz Memory: 15,0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Xe Graphics Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: XPS 13 9310 2-in-1
Problem still exists with Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240115 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.114.0 Qt Version: 5.15.12 Kernel Version: 6.6.11-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz Memory: 15,0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Xe Graphics Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: XPS 13 9310 2-in-1
Still exists: Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240212 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0 Qt Version: 5.15.12 Kernel Version: 6.7.4-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz Memory: 15,0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Xe Graphics Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: XPS 13 9310 2-in-1 Is it really that difficult, that no one has an answer, what might be the reason for this problem?
Still exists with Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240407 KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0 Qt Version: 6.6.3 Kernel Version: 6.8.4-rc1-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz Memory: 15,0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Xe Graphics Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: XPS 13 9310 2-in-1
Still exists with Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20240517 KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.2.0 Qt Version: 6.7.0 Kernel Version: 6.8.9-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz Memory: 15,0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Xe Graphics Manufacturer: Dell Inc. Product Name: XPS 13 9310 2-in-1
Sounds like .local/share/kactivitymanagerd/resources/database is corrupt. You can log out and delete it (make a backup if necessary), this will trigger recreation of a new empty database on the next login.
(In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #9) > Sounds like .local/share/kactivitymanagerd/resources/database is corrupt. > > You can log out and delete it (make a backup if necessary), this will > trigger recreation of a new empty database on the next login. I logged out, renamed the directory and logged in again. New database files are created, but the problem persists - no recent files or apps. There is an error.log in this directoy containing one line: 024-05-22T00:00:32 error: near ".": syntax error Unable to execute statement
I found the missed setting: - System settings -> 'Apps & Windows' -> 'Activities' - double click 'Default' (my only activity profile) - 'Tracking file and app use' I was not aware of this setting before, but after activating it and saving the settings, the list of Recent Files was filled immediatly after opening the next file, same for Recent Applications. Why are there two different places to manage this? Besides the above mentioned location there also is System settings -> 'Security & Privacy' -> 'Recent Files', but this seems to have no effect at all. How do they play together?
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