Disable "Recent File List" shown at startup? 4.4.0

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Thank you, that works!

Just clarifying: I would have expected setting gui.recent_files_count.max to 0 would also do it, but it does not.

Yep - I saw that and will look at the code later today. :-)

That does seem wrong, but note that the gui.recent_files_count.max setting also controls how many files are listed in the File->Open Recent option from the main window. If you want recently opened files listed there, but not on the welcome screen, then gui.welcome_page.show_recent is what you want to change.

https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshar... - you can see that it's not allowed to set those two values to zero. I'm not entirely sure of the logic (I don't think anything breaks if they are zero, but haven't tested.) It's been that way for at least 20 years - https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshar...

https://lists.wireshark.org/archives/...
The code was added to handle a different issue not to explicitly set the number of files.
If 0 is not a valid value then the user should be alerted at OK/Apply not silently change to a different value.