Sunday, September 9, 2007

Google Calendar & Gnome



If you use Google Calendar and Gnome desktop, you would possibly want to see your Google calendar events on your desktop. It's quite easy;

First, go to your Google Calendar and ...

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16 comments:

Mike Pass said...

What Icon Set and Window Theme are you using?

lennart said...

hey! thank you! :)

cagdas said...

@mike pass:
The window borders are from Nimbus theme, and icons are from Ubuntu Studio theme. You can find nimbus theme here : http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Nimbus+(Ubuntu+and+Debian)?content=54755 and Ubuntu Studio theme in Ubuntu repositories.

@lennart : no problem :)

Unknown said...

omg, thats great, been looking for something like this for a while

thank you

jeffeb3 said...

Excellent. But, I run SuSe 10.1 and my evolution-webcal is in /opt/gnome/evolution-webcal/evolution-webcal

Just in case someone wanted to find it, you could run this command:
cd /
sudo find . -name evolution-webcal

I'm no Linux expert, but that worked for me.

jeffeb3 said...

Oh I messed up the location it's actually:
/opt/gnome/lib/evolution-webcal/evolution-webcal

cagdas said...

Thanks Jeff, i'll add that to the post...

Unknown said...

Hi, i can read from the calendar but i can't write to it from evolution, is that normal? is there a way to solve it?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards.

cagdas said...

@factoriadigital.com :
I normaly don't use Evolution, but I tried several things after your comment and I also wasn't able to write to Google calendar .. Sorry, I don't know any workarounds.

However, I might advise you to use Thunderbird with 'Lightning' and 'Provider for Google Calendar' plugins for mail and calendar. With these plugins, you can read&write to Google Calendar.

Anonymous said...

for some strange reason a few weeks ago the times listed jumped back 7 hours... so what is scheduled for 10am in google shows up as 3 am on the gnome calendar.
any suggestions? thanks!

cagdas said...

larry;
All I can think is that you have set the timezone wrong in one (or both) of your system and Google Calendar.

Ben said...

I think I'm missing something here. I open the terminal window typed in what you said,then another window popped up asking how many hours before it refreshes. I confirmed that window then nothing! What have I missed out?

Anonymous said...

Hello,


thanks for the tip.
I was actually looking for something like a gDesklet app, but this is great too.

Michael said...

Is it possible to subscribe to more than one Gcal calendars?

Anonymous said...

I have the same problem. The time zone is set to Europe/Stockholm in both Google Calendar and on my system, but my events show up one hour late in the GNOME calendar.

Has anyone found out how to fix this?

Anonymous said...

I have the same problem. The time zone is set to Europe/Stockholm in both Google Calendar and on my system, but my events show up one hour late in the GNOME calendar.

Has anyone found out how to fix this?