Google Calendar & Gnome

If you want to view your Google Calendar events on your Gnome Desktop;

First, go to your Google Calendar and find out your private ICAL url (This can be found after clicking Manage Calendars > Your Calendar Name). You need the one in the private address section, not the one in the calendar address section.

Now, open a terminal and type :

/usr/lib/evolution-webcal/evolution-webcal YOUR_PRIVATE_ICAL_URL

And that’s it. Here’s a screenshot from my Ubuntu desktop :

Note : evolution-webcal may be in different folders in different distros. (For example in SuSe, it’s in /opt/gnome/lib/evolution-webcal/evolution-webcal). If the above code doesn’t work for you, you can locate evolution-webcal using :

find / -name evolution-webcal

command. (Thanks to Jeff for this info. )

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Published:: 09.09.07 / 10am

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Mike Pass September 9, 2007

What Icon Set and Window Theme are you using?
lennart September 9, 2007

hey! thank you!
cagdas September 9, 2007

@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
Luis September 10, 2007

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

thank you
Jeff September 10, 2007

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.
Jeff September 10, 2007

Oh I messed up the location it’s actually:
/opt/gnome/lib/evolution-webcal/evolution-webcal
cagdas September 11, 2007

Thanks Jeff, i’ll add that to the post…
FactoriaDigital.com September 11, 2007

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 September 12, 2007

@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.
larry October 17, 2007

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 October 23, 2007

larry;
All I can think is that you have set the timezone wrong in one (or both) of your system and Google Calendar.
Ben November 3, 2007

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?
Raphael Jolivet November 20, 2007

Hello,

thanks for the tip.
I was actually looking for something like a gDesklet app, but this is great too.
Michael December 12, 2007

Is it possible to subscribe to more than one Gcal calendars?
Chris March 11, 2008

Having just set this up… two tips:
1) set the calendar preferences to UTC and make sure you set your location under “adjust date and time” if the times don’t correspond to your google calendar times
2) yes, you can add >1 calendar (I just did)

One question: does this persist? If so, can I remove one/both of my calendars later? How?
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n0mer March 23, 2008

yes, it is possible to subscribe to more than one calendar; each one will display in Evolution “calendars” section with its own color
Suresh Joel April 11, 2008

Thank you - great tip!

My time is also messed up - 4 hrs ahead. I checked the time-zones in both - changed all kinds of settings in my clock - nothing seems to make a difference. This is still better than opening a browser and logging in to google calendar just to check if you are free on a day.

Michael - To get multiple calendars repeat the same command with the corresponding URLs.

BTW, Fedora path for evolution webcal is /usr/libexec/evolution-webcal
Suresh Joel April 22, 2008

Time will show correct only if evolution is configured. I installed configured and then uninstalled (I dont use evolution!).
Arthur Gaudio May 2, 2008

I followed you instructions and I got feedback that I am now subscribed, but the calendar does not show up on the desktop…..
Ken May 3, 2008

Which calendar are you expecting Arthur? If you click on the date/time on the GNOME panel the calendar drops down. The appointments you have set in Google’s calendar will be in bold on the GNOME drop-down calendar.

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