Disable 'Recently used apps'

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Hello Tea,

We want to disable ‘recently used apps’ in open onDemand 4.1 as we already have pinned apps on the main dashboard which makes it look too crowded . Can you please help us on how that can be achieved .

Appreciate your response. Thank you !

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This is something you would have configured to have show up I believe. Do you see recently_used_apps being set in /etc/ood/config/ondemand.d/*.yml anywhere?

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Hello ,

Thank you for getting back .

Unfortunately , no I am not able to see it in any of /etc/ood/config/ondemand.d/*.yml or even /etc/ood/config/*.yml file . We are on ondemand 4.1 , is there any other file we can check . Thanks !

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My apologies, I had this backwards. I forget recently_used_apps isn’t a widget you enable via config because it’s inserted by the default dashboard rendering whenever you haven’t defined your own dashboard_layout. The docs are a bit spotty on this point because the example “default layout” doesn’t list recently_used_apps, but the actual rendering code adds it in anyway once a user has run interactive apps. The doc entry is here: Customizations — Open OnDemand 4.1.0 documentation

Do you have a dashboard_layout key set anywhere in /etc/ood/config/ondemand.d/*.yml? Could you run grep -rn dashboard_layout /etc/ood/config/ and share the result? I’d expect nothing to come back. If so, the fix is to define one explicitly, omitting recently_used_apps from the widgets list so that it looks something like:

dashboard_layout:
  rows:
    - columns:
        - width: 12
          widgets:
            - pinned_apps
            - motd

Restart the PUN and the panel should be gone.

For anyone curious about how the recently_used_apps get pulled in: Code search results · GitHub