diff --git a/shell/sugar-activity-factory b/shell/sugar-activity-factory
index bad6aa8a..a144f343 100755
--- a/shell/sugar-activity-factory
+++ b/shell/sugar-activity-factory
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
 
 import sys
 
+import pygtk
+pygtk.require('2.0')
+import gtk
+
 from sugar.activity import activityfactoryservice
 
 activityfactoryservice.run_with_args(sys.argv)