After upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-bit my list of recent documents in gedit returned to the default 10 only.
Normally this could be easily changed with dconf, but now dconf can't find the ui max-recents schema for gedit.
I would appreciate any help.
This option has been removed in recent versions of gedit, so the dconf key was also removed with it.
A workaround is to use the Quick Open plugin, which shows more than 10 recent files. As a bonus, you can also search for files with it. Just follow these steps:
Install, if you haven't already the gedit-plugins package, which contains the Quick Open plugin along with a bunch of other useful plugins:
sudo apt install gedit-plugins
Enable the plugin by clicking the hamburger menu ≡ → Preferences → Plugins and enable Quick Open (see screenshot below).
After that press Ctrl+Alt+O to open a window which shows your recently opened files and also allows to search for files to open.
gedit-plugins. – Daniel Sep 24 '22 at 19:20