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Conky Google Calendar
Part 1 » Conky as a System Monitor
Part 2 » Conky Google Calendar using Gcalcli
Part 3 » Additional References for Conky
Part 2 » Conky Google Calendar using Gcalcli
Part 3 » Additional References for Conky
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This is an extreamly peliminary version for the total re-write of these summary notes! These instructions need to be gone through once more (using a different PC) – to ensure that they are correct, and to provide some example output.
If Needed: Uninstall Previous Version of Gcalcli
DO NOT try the following to install gcalcli – as that version uses an old depreciated API that was finally discontinued!
sudo apt-get install gcalcli
“Google deprecated the old APIs that 2.x relies on a couple years back and EOL'd them effective yesterday. You'll need to upgrade to the 3.x release tree to get it working again.” https://github.com/insanum/gcalcli/issues/153
- If you have the previous version of gcalcli already installed on your system, do the following to uninstall that:
sudo apt-get purge gcalcli rm ~/.gcalclirc # the old .config file NOT compatible with new program version
Install & Configure Gcalcli for Conky
- First, install the needed packages via apt-get:
sudo apt-get install git python-pip python-gdata python-dateutil python-gflags python-vobject python-parsedatetime python-googleapi
- Next, use pip to install the gcalcli python application
git clone https://github.com/insanum/gcalcli.git cd gcalcli sudo python setup.py install pip install vobject parsedatetime
On Ubuntu 14.04 this will result in a broken gcalcli command: (must update python-parsedatetime to fix)
- The following additional commands provide the work-around for this:
wget https://launchpad.net/~cjohnston/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+files/python-parsedatetime_1.2-1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa1_all.deb sudo gdebi python-parsedatetime_1.2-1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa1_all.deb # requires having installed gdebi
Reference: http://askubuntu.com/questions/468907/how-to-set-up-gcalcli
- Finally, create the necessary ~/.gcalcli_oauth file, so gcalcli can assess the desired Google Account Calendar(s)
- Start by entering the following command into the Terminal
gcalcli list --noauth_local_webserver
which will output a message that starts with
WARNING:root:This function, oauth2client.tools.run(), and the use of the gflags library are deprecated and will be removed in a future version of the library. Go to the following link in your browser:
- Next into your web-browser, copy & past the in-terminal (on-screen) url that begins with:
https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?
- Then copy the result code provided by Google, and past that back into the Terminal. (then hit the Enter key)
- And finally make the file where the oauth info is stored readable only by this user:
chmod 700 ~/.gcalcli_oauth # set permissions so only this user can access this file.
- Now ensure that all the needed files for Conky itself are are installed
sudo apt-get install conky-all ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra
Reference: https://github.com/insanum/gcalcli
Configure Conky to Display Google Calendar
nano ~/.conky/conkyrc_gcalcli # copy & past the following text into this empty file
- ~/.conky/conkyrc_gcalcli
alignment top_left background no border_width 0 cpu_avg_samples 2 default_color white default_shade_color black default_outline_color white own_window_colour black color0 white color1 #333399 color2 white color3 #333333 draw_borders no draw_graph_borders yes draw_outline no draw_shades no use_xft yes xftfont DejaVu Sans Mono:size=8 gap_x 5 gap_y 25 minimum_size 600 5 maximum_width 800 net_avg_samples 2 double_buffer yes out_to_console no out_to_stderr no extra_newline no ############################# # - Window specifications - # ############################# own_window_class Conky own_window yes own_window_type normal own_window_transparent no own_window_argb_visual yes own_window_argb_value 96 own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager stippled_borders 0 update_interval 1.0 uppercase no use_spacer none show_graph_scale no show_graph_range no text_buffer_size 8096 TEXT # uncomment the below line for a 2 week Calendar #${execpi 300 gcalcli --conky --nolineart --color_border black --color_date white --color_now_marker red --calendar "Holidays"#white --color_owner green --width 13 calw 2} # uncomment the below line for a 2 day Agenda #${execpi 300 gcalcli --conky --nolineart --color_date white --calendar "Holidays"#white --color_owner green --detail_description agenda today tomorrow}
nano ~/.conky/conkystart.sh # uncomment the line to run the Google Calendar Conky
At the bottom of the conkystart.sh startup script, uncomment the last line (remove the leading #), so the Google Calendar Conky will run when the user logs in.
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