A surplus of activities (fixed)

[Just17]

The download I got is an rpm.  It failed to install the script:

$ rpm -ivh *.rpm
error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/__db.000 (No such file or directory)
$

you need to be root to install something .......  and you should give the full path and name of the RPM when doing so

[ternor]

Of course, doh.  The path isn't required if you are in the folder containing the .rpm.

[Just17]

Of course, doh.  The path isn't required if you are in the folder containing the .rpm.

True, but using *.rpm  can cause more than the desired RPM to be installed ......   path and name are specific and prevent unwanted results 

[ternor]

I know.  I have a folder named 'Install' and only have in it .rpms I wish to install.  I now have the script running and all seems good enough.  I have an activity called  PCLinuxOS KDE which seems to essential.

[TNTman]

Pinoc
Thanks, works like a charm.

[rich2005]

Well, I have it under control here with a script in Autostart

screenshot http://i.imgur.com/6lxli.jpg

I get that new activity button but I can live with that.

Should I go back to first post and mark solved or maybe fixed.

[ternor]

I would like to mention something which appears to be an additional benefit of the new script.

I use "Desktop Setting" rather than "Folder View" and have selected in Desktop Settings the option to use different widgets on each virtual desktop.  I use a different background on each virtual desktop (because I can).

What happened now and then, usually for no apparent reason, was that the background on each desktop became the same.  I found that the "different widgets" option was still selected.  It took a couple of log outs and back in and fiddling with the widgets option to get the different backgrounds back.

Since I began using the script, no such events have occurred.

[mellon]

Since the update to 4.9.2 I have not seen any new New Activities being created at all. 

Mellon

[rich2005]

That seems to have fixed it.  The KDE 4.9.2 packages just appeared in the heanet.ie repo. Updated and a couple of reboots and like mellon no new activities show. Looks good.