Then you can visit the link in order to authorize the app to read events from your Google Calendar. Go to the following link in your browser: If you see message like this: Falling back to -noauth_local_webserver and continuing with If it doesn't work, a system restart may help the desklet to detect google-api-python-client.Īnother way to solve the not working desklet is by running this command in terminal: python3 ~/.local/share/cinnamon/desklets/ /py/google_calendar.py -list-calendars Note: If nothing happens(the screen just blinks) or there is a warning sign in the 'Desklets' dialog, try to remove and add the desklet again. You can filter calendars by: 'Fill in the list below with the names of all my calendars'.You can manage the accounts from the top left arrows.Change the username on the newly added calendar.Add new instance from the plus sign in Google Desklets.To use multiple Google calendar accounts follow this steps: You can find the user name on the image below: Cinnamon Desklet - adding a tooltip over an image. Sayanel Level 2 Posts: 72 Joined: Wed 7:19 pm. Forum rules Topics in this forum are automatically closed 6 months after creation. Or list all calendars for a given account: gcalendar -list-calendars -account username About programming and getting involved with Linux Mint development. To list all Google calendar accounts on current Linux machine use: gcalendar -list-calendars Allow the 'Cinnamon Google Calendar Desklet' to read your Google Calendar events. The browser should get a Google Authentication page asking for reading permission. You can copy the link from the default browser and use it to another one. The link will be something like: In case of success you should see this message: This will send a request to your default browser where you need to authorize the Google account. To Authorize Google calendar desklet on your Linux you need to run: gcalendar Sudo pip3 install -upgrade python-dateutil google-api-python-client oauth2client Install Python modules using the following command(python-dateutil, google-api-python-client and oauth2client):.Sudo apt install python3-pip python3-setuptools python3-dateutil python3-oauth2client python3-googleapi Install dependencies using the following command: We can install Google calendar desklet from Python pip command: sudo apt install python3-pip python3-setuptools python3-dateutil python3-oauth2client python3-googleapi How to add google calendar to your Linux Mint desktop follow next steps (Tested it with Linux Mint 19, 20, 21) add google calendar desktop by terminal sudo add-apt-repository ppa:slgobinath/gcalendarĭisclaimer: ppa:slgobinath/gcalendar and AUR gcalendar are my (the developer of this desklet) own repositories that are not monitored by the Linux Mint team, and user installs it at their own discretion. You can configure every aspect of the desklet using the configure dialog. This desklet uses google-api-python-client to pull events from Google Calendar. View your upcoming calendar events on your Cinnamon Desktop. This is the official page of the desklet: If you don't like the idea to open it each time in order to get information for your events for the week then you can simply add it to your desktop. There is no doubt that Google Calendar is one of the most popular calendars.

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