My Arch Way almost reached...but I want a desktop calendar!

sajro · 2008-05-18 17:33:32

I'm achieving computing nirvana (ohmmm) but I've got one thing bugging me: I can't seem to find a good desktop calendar.

I tried Rainlendar, but it's real buggy in Openbox (Rainlendar goes gray a lot, requires killing/restarting it) and also includes itself in the Alt+Tab list, which ticks me off to no end. That's my main way of switching applications and I want my open applications, not widgets.

So, I'm looking for a calendar with few dependencies (GTK is fine, most of my apps are GTK, but as little GNOME deps as possible) that can schedule events and show me the date, upcoming events, current events, tasks, etc. I want one that won't bug up every time I add an event, and one that will play like Conky and keep itself on the desktop and out of my Alt+Tab list. Preferably transparent-backgrounded (a la Conky!).

Is there such a thing?

moljac024 · 2008-05-18 19:39:08

Perhaps you could try some desktop widgets ?

- adesklets
- gdesklets
- screenlets

Take your pick sir!

sajro · 2008-05-18 23:29:54

moljac024 wrote:

Perhaps you could try some desktop widgets ?
- adesklets
- gdesklets
- screenlets
Take your pick sir!

добар дан!

Thank you, but I prefer not to have more overhead to worry about simply for the calendar. I've seen something about conky having a calendar; I'm looking into that. Maybe if I start another instance of Conky in the top of the screen...

drag0nl0rd · 2008-05-19 09:02:34

I'm using "gdeskcal" (depens on pygtk) and am really happy with it. Fluxbox WM. The package is in [extra]. Did you try this one?

Husio · 2008-05-19 17:29:23

You can use conky with cal It may be cool.

synthead · 2008-05-20 09:51:55

drag0nl0rd wrote:

I'm using "gdeskcal" (depens on pygtk) and am really happy with it. Fluxbox WM. The package is in [extra]. Did you try this one?

That's what I'm using too.

pluisje · 2008-05-20 09:58:42

it's not realy an desktop solution... i realy like google's calendar and you could use xml feed to read out the agenda
and you can create multiply agenda's and even have pre-defined calendars for vecations and so.

axion419 · 2008-05-20 16:17:10

hey, figured i would post this here, instead of a new thread. Ive been looking for a CLI calendar/datebook type program. I use cal now, but it just shows the month and day - i would want to be able to add a 'note' to a day and be able to view those notes. Any ideas, I imagine this has already been coded a million times, so no point in reinventing the wheel and doing it myself. thanks.

skymt · 2008-05-20 16:28:34

axion419: Try Remind/Wyrd.

anrxc · 2008-05-22 01:22:00

For those searching for a simpler application, xdiary is a very light calendar.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/xdiarycalendar/

Xdiary is a simple X11 application that displays a one-month or full-year calendar, in association with a two-pane daily diary. The first pane shows the current day items, and the second pane shows the past and next items to come. The internal editor allows drag-n-drop, has a few emacs-like bindings, and is rather efficient in spite of a small memory footprint. Xdiary can print diaries and month/year calendars, and supports seven languages.

Last edited by anrxc (2008-05-22 01:22:57)

sajro · 2008-05-22 02:39:47

anrxc wrote:

For those searching for a simpler application, xdiary is a very light calendar.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/xdiarycalendar/
Xdiary is a simple X11 application that displays a one-month or full-year calendar, in association with a two-pane daily diary. The first pane shows the current day items, and the second pane shows the past and next items to come. The internal editor allows drag-n-drop, has a few emacs-like bindings, and is rather efficient in spite of a small memory footprint. Xdiary can print diaries and month/year calendars, and supports seven languages.

Hvala anrxc!

This looks promising. Might be just what I need!

oliver · 2008-05-22 18:47:32

osmo rules

skualito · 2008-11-19 20:48:06

Hi all

It's a not so recent topic but I just discovered xdiary today and it's integrating perfectly in a lightweight system with wmii, awseome, etc...
I didn't find a pkgbuild so I made one and submitted to aur unsupported.
Please give feedback if the PKGBUILD is not correct.

pkgname=xdiary
pkgver=1.32
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Displays a one-month or full-year calendar, in association with a two-pane daily diary"
arch=(i686)
url="http://directory.fsf.org/project/xdiary"
license=('GPL2')
groups=()
depends=('libxaw')
makedepends=('imake')
source=(ftp://ftp.ac-grenoble.fr/ge/Office/$pkgname-$pkgver.tgz)
md5sums=(d0503881b6c5f7071ef310a3303f4234) 

build() {
  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"

  xmkmf
  sed -i "s|-lXaw95|-lXaw|" Makefile
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" install
}

niller · 2008-11-19 21:14:37

niels ~/builds/xdiary $ makepkg
==> Making package: xdiary 1.32-1 i686 (ons nov 19 22:13:54 CET 2008)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Missing Dependencies:
-> imake
==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.
niels ~/builds/xdiary $

niller · 2008-11-19 21:16:55

Sorry

Installed imake, and looking at it now

IT'S ALIVE!!!!

niller · 2008-11-19 21:30:49

Actually it's a nice peace of software !

I wonder if it accepts colors in .Xdefaults ?

skualito · 2008-11-19 21:31:31

Hi
Is it not cause you don't have imake installed ? I'm not sure about the process here.
When using yaourt the "imake" dependency is installed and the package works fine.

EDIT: ooups , too late ....

Last edited by skualito (2009-10-03 15:17:27)

dhave · 2008-11-19 21:36:27

Rainlendar.

chno95 · 2008-11-19 21:44:19

axion419 wrote:

hey, figured i would post this here, instead of a new thread. Ive been looking for a CLI calendar/datebook type program. I use cal now, but it just shows the month and day - i would want to be able to add a 'note' to a day and be able to view those notes. Any ideas, I imagine this has already been coded a million times, so no point in reinventing the wheel and doing it myself. thanks.

Sounds like calcurses might be what you're looking for.

niller · 2008-11-19 21:45:24

After a little searching i found out that if you install

remind
tcllib

You should be able to get a TK version of the famous remind software.

Try this

tkremind

It doesn't look bad

elmer_42 · 2008-11-20 00:12:00

Husio wrote:

You can use conky with cal It may be cool.

I did that for a little bit. It looked relatively good; you can see it for yourself here.

skualito · 2008-11-20 11:57:22

@niller

yes it supports .Xdefault for background-foreground, and geom.

xdiary*background: #81654F
xdiary*foreground: #C1C48B

Last edited by skualito (2008-11-20 11:58:12)

firecat53 · 2008-11-20 14:22:43

Maybe this isn't quite what the OP had in mind, but I use small scripts run by cron to grab my Google Calendar events and Remember the Milk Todo's for conky. Then if I want to add something, I made a shortcut using Prism which I setup Win-G to activate (openbox/lxde) for my Gcal w/ the RTM firefox extension so I can add and/or edit events and todo's. Screenshot of conky setup It's lightweight most of the time! And I can add events to either one via text message from my phone. Quite handy!

Scott

niller · 2008-11-20 14:53:07

Okay you asked for it ..... Conky'ies please ??

What about systray's, what do you use instead ??

Koonboi · 2009-04-28 22:43:23

${color 6b6b6b}${font Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=9}${execpi 60 DJS=`date +%_d`; cal | sed '1d' | sed '/./!d' | sed 's/$/                     /' | fold -w 21 | sed -n '/^.\{21\}/p' | sed 's/^/${alignc} /' | sed /" $DJS "/s/" $DJS "/" "'${color6}'"$DJS"'${color1}'" "/}

Have you tried this? Add it to the bottom of your .conkyrc file.

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