I have KDE set up to show the applications menu when I click on the desktop. At the top of the menu is a list of recently used applications.

What I would like to do is configure or remove that. When I originally set it up there was an option to chose the number of entries there. I seem to recall there was some other option, but I may be wrong about that.

I've looked everywhere and I'm sure there is no option in "System Settings", and right clicking on the menu frame does not reveal (to me) a viable option. The question is, how do I configure that?

PS: I'm very comfortable with editing files if that is the solution.

Assuming you are using KDE 4.x..

Right click on the panel menu icon > Application Launcher Menu Settings > Views. Untick Recently Used Applications. You can control the number of items shown on the "Options" page.

Thank you bcooksley, but I am using 3.x and I have none of what you mention. I click on the desktop and I get this:

I think you clicked the left mouse button, you need to right click

The "Mouse Button Actions" is configured under "Behaviour" in desktop system settings. I happen to have it set up to bring up the application menu upon left click. Right clicking on the desktop brings up the desktop menu. In the application menu I can chose "System Settings" but there are no other relevant choices than "Desktop" and that menu does not have a single one of the options that bcooksley mentioned. The "Desktop Menu" is exactly the same.

google01103 wrote:I think you clicked the left mouse button, you need to right click

Click where?

PS: It sounds like it would be a lot easier to edit the appropriate configuration file. Does anyone know which one? I've looked at /etc/xdg/menus/kde-applications.menu and ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu but can't seem to find the relevant lines.

Go to KDE Control Center -> Desktop -> Panels (or run command "kcmshell panel") -> Menus...

I finally found the answer.

Right click on the Kicker, and a menu comes up which includes "configure panel". That is where the "Menus" option can be found.

There are "show the applications most frequently used", and "show the applications most recently used", and one can also chose how many items.

This is one of those situations where an option was not in System Settings but rather put somewhere else. I'm sure many people have used this, and like me, have been there in the past, but had forgotten how to do it because it is so odd.

I just came back here and noticed an earlier post which I missed - presumably things got out of order when the forum was down for a while.

nazir: Go to KDE Control Center -> Desktop -> Panels (or run command "kcmshell panel") -> Menus...

Thanks nazir. In my KDE, there is no "Panels" in the Desktop menu of the Control Center. However, the command "kcmshell panel" works like a charm and brings up the exact same menu I get through the kicker. Brilliant! That was really the answer I was looking for.