I hope this is the right list to post this to. Apologies if it isn't. I posted this question to Stack Overflow a few days ago, but have not received any answers yet: http://stackoverflow.com/q/39836725/90848 I'm trying to add to the "recently used" files list from Python 3 on Ubuntu. I am able to successfully read the recently used file list like this: from gi.repository import Gtk recent_mgr = Gtk.RecentManager.get_default() for item in recent_mgr.get_items(): print(item.get_uri()) This prints out the same list of files I see when I look at "Recent" in Nautilus, or look at the "Recently Used" place in the file dialog of apps like GIMP. However, when I tried adding an item like this... # /home/laurence/foo/bar.txt is an existing text file recent_mgr.add_item('file:///home/laurence/foo/bar.txt') ...the file does not show up in the Recent section of Nautilus or in file dialogs. It doesn't even show up in the results returned by recent_mgr.get_items(). The call to add_item returned True. How can I add a file to the recently used file list from Python? My end goal, is to make a script that can add a given file to the recently used list from the command-line. I can then call that from other scripts that generate files (for example, my script that makes screengrabs), so that when one runs (usually in response to a keyboard shortcut) I can easily get to its output from apps like GIMP, Inkscape, etc. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
