GNOME "Places" menu: Adding and deleting bookmarks
This article is very old (more than 14 years) and likely outdated. Please be careful and take everything in here with a grain of salt.
If you look in the “Places” menu of the GNOME panel or the “Places” view in open/close dialogs or in the file manager, you will see a list of folders. It often includes some local folders and - in addition - the remote locations you connected to via the “Connect to server” functionality.
These entries are saved in your home directory in the file .gtk-bookmarks. It is built using a simple scheme: Each line consists of a target URL and a label to display, separated by a blank. You can simply reduce or extend your list of bookmarks by editing this file.
An example, showing various protocols:
sftp://username@host.na.me/path/to/folder My folder on host.na.me (via SSH)
ftp://user@another.host/mypath Another bookmark, using FTP
file:///home/user2/music My local music folder
This will be displayed as
My folder on host.na.me (via SSH)
Another bookmark, using FTP
My local music folder