Here's a fix to try. In the Terminal activity, paste these three commands one by one;
wget https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/810/commits/9e7a93afba13470464700673dec6a3f9750cfd34.patch sudo dnf install -y patch sudo patch /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jarabe/journal/journalactivity.py < 9e7a93afba13470464700673dec6a3f9750cfd34.patch Then logout and login again. The Journal should not appear until you ask for it. You may see a series of rectangles drawn briefly, and Log activity should have in shell.log file WARNING root: Journal premature deiconify by Metacity (RHBZ #1519042), try again. On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 01:04:25AM -0500, Kevin wrote: > Hi all, and thanks for making and sharing sugar. It looks like wonderful > software. > > I'd like to introduce my 8yo kid to sugar, so I installed vanilla F29 on an > old > MacBook Pro, updated all installed software via yum (no apparent problems with > that much), and then I followed the instructions I found [1]here: > > ============== > > Using Sugar as a Desktop Environment > > Install Fedora. Then, in a Terminal, type: > > sudo dnf groupinstall sugar-desktop > > Then restart your computer. At the Sign in select the Sugar desktop. > > ============== > > I did that, and after having done so, I don't have the same experience that I > see when I go to [2]https://try.sugarizer.org. > > When I visit [3]https://try.sugarizer.org I see two options to click: "New > user" and "Login", so I chose the former. Then I see "Choose name" and I type > a > trial name in to the text field and click "Next". Then I see "Choose at least > 4 > images:" and I click on "a", "b", "c", and "d" and then click "Next". And now > I > see "Click to change color:", and here is where there is one page that has > some > common features with my F29/Sugar desktop environment. So I click until I like > a color combination for my trial XO character and then click "Done." Then I > see > a spinny icon and shortly afterwards I see my XO character at the center of a > spiral of Activity icons that I suspect is very familiar to everyone here > (what > I think of as the Sugar desktop). > > But this differs in some important ways from what I see in my F29/Sugar > desktop > environment. > > When I enter my kid's username and password at the gnome display manager in > F29 > and select the Sugar desktop, I do see the "Click to change color:" screen. > After I click "Next" on this screen, then I see a screen to choose gender. > After I click "Next" on this screen, then I see a screen to choose a grade. > After I click "Done" on this screen, I don't see my XO character at the center > of a spiral of Activity icons like I do at [4]https://try.sugarizer.org. I > don't see anything like it at all. I can't take a screenshot of it because the > screen seems to have no functionality for that at all. In the middle of a > white > screen I see a gray icon of a three-ring binder and the phrase: "Your Journal > is empty". In the black top bar or "title bar", I see a small gray magnifying > glass search icon in a white text box that reads "Search in Journal" on the > far > left, and then proceeding from left to right, I see a white star, then a white > box icon with its four top flaps open, then two drop-down menus that read > "Anything" (entitled "Select filter") and "Anytime" (also entitled "Select > filter" with date options like "Today" and "Since yesterday"), respectively, > then lastly I see an icon of a pencil writing on a piece of paper with upward > and downward pointing triangles (another drop-down menu entitled "Sort view"). > > I get the impression that in my F29/Sugar desktop described above, I'm looking > at the Journal Activity, not the spiral collection of Activity icons that I > see > at [5]https://try.sugarizer.org. > > In [6]https://try.sugarizer.org, I see the same three-ring binder icon just > below the XO character, and when I click on it at > [7]https://try.sugarizer.org, > I'm taken to a screen that is similar to my desktop in my F29/Sugar desktop > ("Search in journal", white star, "Anything" and "Anytime" drop-down menus, a > question mark inside a circle, and finally a dot inside a circle on the far > right; and the same three-ring binder icon in the center of the screen above > the words "Your journal is empty"). But I can exit this screen and return to > the spiral of Activity icons by clicking the dot-in-circle icon. There is no > way I can find to exit the Journal activity in my F29/Sugar desktop. > > When I burned the SoaS iso to a DVD-R and booted into that on this old MacBook > Pro, I had the exact same experience as I described above when logging into > this vanilla F29 OS and selecting the Sugar desktop within the gnome display > manager. > > So my question is, how do I make my F29/Sugar desktop (apparently just the > Journal activity) look something like what I see at [8]https:// > try.sugarizer.org (which I think is what I'm supposed to be seeing: the Sugar > desktop)? > > As it is now, the only thing I can really do in my F29/Sugar desktop is to > kill > -9 the only running process that I see owned by my kid's account when I issue > the "[alpha@localhost ~]$ w" command (/usr/libexec/gdm-x-session --run-script > sugar). I do this while logged into F29 as another user in either a virtual > console or in the gnome desktop environment running a terminal window. Then I > can login as my kid again and go through the same stuck-in-journal-activity > loop. How do I break out of this loop? > > I asked about this yesterday in IRC as Nick dr02020, and walterbender > suggested > that I try the F29 vanilla installation that I have now done. Thanks for the > suggestion, Walter, but I have the same problems in F29 too. > > Thanks for any suggestions on this dilemma. I'm excited to see how my kid does > in sugar and hope I can do so in our own computer rather than strictly at [9] > https://try.sugarizer.org. > > Best, > > Kevin > > References: > > [1] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/fedora.md > [2] https://try.sugarizer.org/ > [3] https://try.sugarizer.org/ > [4] https://try.sugarizer.org/ > [5] https://try.sugarizer.org/ > [6] https://try.sugarizer.org/ > [7] https://try.sugarizer.org/ > [8] https://try.sugarizer.org/ > [9] https://try.sugarizer.org/ > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep