one liner GUI to open recent files

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This one liner is a nice and handy GUI way to open recent files (useful, for example, if you use Fluxbox)

file=$(yad --center --title="Recent files" --no-buttons --file & sleep 1 && xdotool key Down && xdotool key Down && xdotool key Up && xdotool key Up && xdotool key KP_Enter) && xdg-open "$file"

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Thanks, it’s a clever tip.
I’ll suggest also injecting –width=1000 –show-hidden
(b/c at the default width, the autoresized yad columns partially obscure long filenames)

Many of the programs I use do not register their file accesses with ~/.local/share/recently_used.xbel, but I have never systematically checked which of them do vs which don’t.

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