What sugar activity packages did you install vis yum? My guess is you don't have any pulled in as dependencies from sugar-desktop.
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018, 11:05 PM Kevin <accounts@medical.democrat 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 > here <https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/fedora.md>: > > ============== > > 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 https://try.sugarizer.org. > > When I visit 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 > 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 https://try.sugarizer.org. > > In https://try.sugarizer.org, I see the same three-ring binder icon just > below the XO character, and when I click on it at > 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 > 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 https://try.sugarizer.org. > > Best, > > Kevin > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
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