Eureka!!! I found my calendar event displayer!

[Logansfury]

This is so cool.

I have a conky widget displaying a 3-month (previous, current, next) compact calendar, and now below it, I have a bright white HUD with my google calendar events by using a desklet from the Cinnamon spices store: Gcalendar!

It's working awesome and already is displaying my test events. I just wish it could be customized with font and resized but other than that it's exactly what I wanted!

[TaterChip]

This is so cool.

I have a conky widget displaying a 3-month (previous, current, next) compact calendar, and now below it, I have a bright white HUD with my google calendar events by using a desklet from the Cinnamon spices store: Gcalendar!

It's working awesome and already is displaying my test events. I just wish it could be customized with font and resized but other than that it's exactly what I wanted!

relative rookie here... where is the Cinnamon spices store. does the thingie connect to KOrganizer?

[Logansfury]

Hello Tater!

I accessed gcalendar by opening the menu from the super button and typing "Desklet" into the search field. This brings up the Desklets GUI. It takes a moment to load the 50 or so available choices but once done, gcalendar should be the top choice if you are displaying "by Popularity" in the downloads tab. After you download it, switch to the Manage tab to enable it and access the config window.

Instructions for the necessary installs and dependencies came from the Cinnamon Spices website:

https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/desklets/view/35

Enjoy!

[Koentje]

...I just wish it could be customized with font and resized but other than that it's exactly what I wanted!

You could snoop around in the code to find the font that's used... ~/.config/share/cinnamon/desklets/
There should be a folder called gcalendar or something, and in it a desklet.js, or a settings-schema.json or a stylesheet.css.

[Logansfury]

You could snoop around in the code to find the font that's used... ~/.config/share/cinnamon/desklets/
There should be a folder called gcalendar or something, and in it a desklet.js, or a settings-schema.json or a stylesheet.css.

Gnarley! I dont mind poking about. I'll make a copy of the relevant files to keep a backup of their original working state before I start editing values.

Awesome suggestion, Thank you

[Logansfury]

You could snoop around in the code to find the font that's used... ~/.config/share/cinnamon/desklets/
There should be a folder called gcalendar or something, and in it a desklet.js, or a settings-schema.json or a stylesheet.css.

My directory tree was a bit different. I had no share subdir under .config, but cinnamon subdir was there, and spices under that, then I found a googleCalendar@javahelps.com dir. In this was only one file, named 1.json. I opened it with a text editor and the word font doesnt exist in it. It seems to just be the information for the configuration window, not the desklet display itself.

Where on earth is this desklet hiding it's configuration info?

[Logansfury]

I found a gcalendar directory under .config, but it only contains one file called default_v1.dat and contains my google ID's and secret codes. Nothing about font in this either.

[Koentje]

My directory tree was a bit different. I had no share subdir under .config....

My bad! I meant ~/.local/share/cinnamon/desklets/....

[Logansfury]

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Disco! That's a good path. I am in the googleCalendar@javahelps.com directory under desklets and it has a .js, a .css and 2 .json files.

I'll see about hunting down font info!

[Logansfury]

I found only one file naming a font. It was set to Noto Sans Regular and I changed it to my custom Neon 80s but the change never showed on the calendar display

[Koentje]

I found only one file naming a font. It was set to Noto Sans Regular and I changed it to my custom Neon 80s but the change never showed on the calendar display

Can you attach the font? You probably have to name it different...

[Logansfury]

Can you attach the font? You probably have to name it different...

I got it as neon_80s.zip from https://www.dafont.com/neon-80s.font

As it turns out I did NOT have the Neon.ttf in my .fonts directory, yet my calendar, my Mizar clock, my Minamalis all are showing the font perfectly and in all cases referring to the font as Neon 80s in the config files has made it work.

[Logansfury]

Success!!

I put the Neon.ttf into .fonts, and just to be safe, copied it, pasted it and renamed it Neon 80s.ttf to cover all my bases, then I rebooted the Machine and my gcalendar is displaying in Neon 80s font just fine

[Koentje]

It's postscript name is Neon80s

[Logansfury]

It's postscript name is Neon80s

That's interesting because all over my conky widgets I have been referring to it as "Neon 80s" with a space and it's displayed like a champ every time.

[Koentje]

I know, but the gcalendar is not a conky.. and not all programs are calling a font the same way!
I had a lot of troubles to get Terminus font going on in some code..

[Logansfury]

I know, but the gcalendar is not a conky.. and not all programs are calling a font the same way!
I had a lot of troubles to get Terminus font going on in some code..

I'll keep that in mind. ATM the universe has had pity upon me and the way I have configured actually works, so I'm going with the "aint broke, don't fix it" mentality and just leaving the system the crap alone

[Logansfury]

I went into the .sh files for the current/next/previous calendars and switched the display from red days of the month with current day white to white days of the month with current day displaying in red. It's now much more readable. I also gently tweaked the conky.conf to line all 3 calendars up precisely on screen. I'm very happy with this and believe I'm done building my desktop

[Koentje]

I thought you only wanted one month?

[Logansfury]

I thought you only wanted one month?

Originally, yes I was chasing a single month calendar. I tried running this one without the previous and next but the current failed to appear. And the few single month calendars I did get my hand on all had boarders/backgrounds I couldn't disable. The way the google events display takes up real-estate I think the desktop actually benefits from the width of the 3 month cal.