Google Calendar into Conky

[pt123]

Here is a simple tutorial on getting your Google Calendar on Conky.
Google calendar is a very useful due to it's accessibility, while Conky is great way to display information in subtle manner.

GCalcli is a command line tool that lets you access your Google Calendar in a terminal.
http://code.google.com/p/gcalcli/

Thankfully it was added to the repositories in Hardy.


Step One GCalcli
To install gcalcli
sudo apt-get install gcalcli

Then in your home folder you need to create a config file with your Google Calendar logins. Create the file by running this command:
gedit ~/.gcalclirc

Then in text file enter your Google Calendar username & password in this format. Note in the username in don't include the "@gmail.com" part.


[gcalcli]
user: yourusername
pw: yourpassword


If you want to test it enter this command in a terminal
gcalcli --nc agenda

It should list an agenda from your calendar for the next five days

You need to create the script file below to update the file with your Google Calendar data.
In the script you need to set 1 variable, the file path to the text file that will hold the calendar data.



#!/bin/bash
gcalcli --nc agenda | tee /pathToTextFile/gcal.txt

Edit: This post explains how to get your agenda for the next 2 months
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6228269&postcount=45

You need to cut and past the above code into a file called gcal.sh.
Then you can run the script in a terminal by
bash /pathtoFolder/gcal.sh

Note. Gcalcli provides many other outputs including a calendar like output. You can read about it here:
http://code.google.com/p/gcalcli/wiki/HowTo

If you want you can get the script to run every X minutes by editing your cron. I don't want to go into this . This thread deals Cron comprehensively
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=102626

Step Two Conky
To get the Google Calendar data in your Conky, edit your config file.
gedit .conkyrc

Then find the word "TEXT" in it, below it you can add the following line
${head /pathToTextFile/gcal.txt 10 20}

Note. 10 is the number of lines from the top of text file. You also need to increase your text buffer if you planning to read many lines by editing the following lines.

# Maximum size of buffer for user text, i.e. below TEXT line.default is 16384 bytes
max_user_text 32768



That's it. I have attached a small example of how it can look like.

This was tested on the Gcalci & Conky that came with Hardy 8.04

You can also find my Conky & Tomboy tutorial here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=805211

[sweetthdevil]

Sounds great, I was actually wainting for that for a while, however I have an error running the "gcalcli --nc agenda" command.

sweetth@ubuntu:~$ gcalcli --nc agenda
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gcalcli", line 1114, in <module>
DoooooItHippieMonster()
File "/usr/bin/gcalcli", line 1044, in DoooooItHippieMonster
gcal.AgendaQuery()
File "/usr/bin/gcalcli", line 777, in AgendaQuery
eventList = self._SearchForCalEvents(start, end, start, None)
File "/usr/bin/gcalcli", line 710, in _SearchForCalEvents
feed = self.gcal.CalendarQuery(query)
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gdata/calendar/service.py", line 115, in CalendarQuery
result = self.Query(query.ToUri())
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gdata/calendar/service.py", line 111, in Query
result = self.Get(uri)
File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gdata/service.py", line 556, in Get
'reason': server_response.reason, 'body': result_body}
gdata.service.RequestError: {'status': 400, 'body': 'Invalid UserId p', 'reason': 'Bad Request'}

[pt123]

Sounds great, I was actually wainting for that for a while, however I have an error running the "gcalcli --nc agenda" command.

sweetth@ubuntu:~$ gcalcli --nc agenda
gdata.service.RequestError: {'status': 400, 'body': 'Invalid UserId p', 'reason': 'Bad Request'}



The error is there you are placing the incorrect user id in the config file.

When you place the username in the config file don't include the "@gmail.com" part.

[sweetthdevil]

Well actually no, the problem come from the weather calendar I was using witinh my Google calendar, I deleted it, and is now working fine.

Many thanks, great how to!

[pt123]

Many thanks, great how to!

Why not use Thanks button ;) http://ubuntuforums.org/images/buttons/post_thanks.gif

[sweetthdevil]

Done, funny, never knew what was the icon for... :lolflag:

[inter-m]

that sounds great and i would like to try it... but how would i do it on Gusty since its not available on its repos...

Khalaf

[pt123]

that sounds great and i would like to try it... but how would i do it on Gusty since its not available on its repos...

Khalaf

You can but it is a little meessy. When I was on hardy I had to install using the tar ball. There were problems with dependencies (if recall correctly python-xml-tree)

[sweetthdevil]

Hi me again...

a quick question, I am looking for an option to go to the next line after a certain numbers of characters, trouble is the output of my scheddule is often too long, so i whish to cut the lenght by half, but if I use the "maximum_width" option it's just cut the text from one side.

Do you know what I mean?

[PinkFloyd102489]

I keep getting a "failed to authenticate". Im not doing the Conky thing, I just want to access the calendar from the command line.

[sweetthdevil]

are you sure you of your username and password? do not put user@gmail but only user.

[sweetthdevil]

Just to know, have you seen my previous question?

Hi me again...

a quick question, I am looking for an option to go to the next line after a certain numbers of characters, trouble is the output of my scheddule is often too long, so i whish to cut the lenght by half, but if I use the "maximum_width" option it's just cut the text from one side.

Do you know what I mean?

Thanks

[pt123]

Just to know, have you seen my previous question?
Thanks

Yeah word wrap is a problem with conky but you can use this script by Heiner Steven

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1907955&postcount=61

save it in your script folder called wordwrap.sh

Then call the code in a bash script like this:

cat ~/journal/gcal.txt | ~/scripts/wordwrap.sh -w 46 -o 10 > ~/journal/gcalWW.txt


where 46 is word wrap characters.
gcal.txt is where the original Google calendar is retrieved to.

[sweetthdevil]

Fantastic exaclty what I was looking for!!! Work perfectly!!!

Many thanks!!

[Mandrake12]

Superb, great stuff! thanx!

[Kronos2785]

Yeah word wrap is a problem with conky but you can use this script by Heiner Steven

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1907955&postcount=61

save it in your script folder called wordwrap.sh

Then call the code in a bash script like this:

cat ~/journal/gcal.txt | ~/scripts/wordwrap.sh -w 46 -o 10 > ~/journal/gcalWW.txt


where 46 is word wrap characters.
gcal.txt is where the original Google calendar is retrieved to.

Unfortunately, that word wrap program removes the whitespace that keeps times and dates inline vertically. Does anyone know of another word wrap script (or have the skills to edit this one) so that whitespace is not removed during the wrapping procedure?

regards

[sweetthdevil]

could you show me what you mean with a screenshot?

[sweetthdevil]

could you please show me with a screenshot?

[pt123]

Unfortunately, that word wrap program removes the whitespace that keeps times and dates inline vertically. Does anyone know of another word wrap script (or have the skills to edit this one) so that whitespace is not removed during the wrapping procedure?

regards

Yeah it doesn't , I remember when looking for this it was listed as a TODO by the original coder.

You might want to search for a python word wrap script.
e.g.
http://iwiwdsmi.blogspot.com/2007/09/python-word-wrap-function.html

With Python it is a lot easier for someone new to edit the code.

Off-topic - while doing the search I just came across that even Aptana doesn't have a wordwrap function
http://forums.aptana.com/viewtopic.php?t=3358

[kaivalagi]

Hi All,

I don't mean to steal anyone's thunder, but I thought this was a good place to make mention my post, and get some feedback.

I have created a Google Calendar python script specifically for Conky, which uses the gdata api rather than the cli app talked about here. I've done this on the premise that it should be much more customizable than would otherwise be possible.

You can find the post here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=837385

I would appreciate some feedback on the script and any suggestions for further functionality are welcome.

Key feature are:

Utilises the Google Calendar API.
Supports the use of a template to define the layout of each event output
Supports regional datetime formats, by way of system locales
Optional event limit so you can reduce the total output in Conky if you have lot's of events, events should be returned earliest first (needs testing)


I have already created a weather forecasting script for Conky in much the same manner, which has gone down well, and I hope the same can be the case for this one.

Cheers

[Madwida]

Hi

I followed this guide and was successful until I got here:

In the script you need to set 1 variable, the file path to the text file that will hold the calendar data.
Code:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/gcalcli --nc agenda | tee /pathToTextFile/gcal.txt

You need to cut and past the above code into a file called gcal.sh.
Then you can run the script in a terminal by
Code:

sh /pathtoFolder/gcal.sh

I am really a nooby. I created the file using gedit and changed the /pathToTextFile/ to /home. But then I could not get it to work. It kept saying .sh cannot open /home

I know how to use Conky and have one running now. My problem seems to hinge on my not understanding or performing properly the steps laid out above.

Thanks for any help.

[unutbu]

Change /pathToTextFile/ to /home/USERNAME/
(where USERNAME is your username)

Make a directory called bin in your home account (/home/USERNAME/bin).

Save the script gcal.sh in /home/USERNAME/bin.

Use gedit to either create or edit ~/.profile. Put these lines in ~/.profile:

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
export PATH

Save and exit gedit.
Log out. Log back in. This will make the change in PATH effective.
From now on, whenever you type a command, ~/bin will be among the directories searched to find the executable. Thus you can just type the name of the script without the entire path and the script will execute.

Make the script executable:

chmod +x ~/bin/gcal.sh

Now to run the script simply type:

gcal.sh

[pt123]

as mentioned above you need to use /home/username/gcal.txt

You also don't have to edit the ~./profile
if you are running the script file in cron using "/home/username/gcal.sh"

[Madwida]

Hi again

So, this is the output from the terminal:

christian@christian-laptop:~$ gcalcli --nc agenda

Wed Sep 24 10:00am Olin Music

Thu Sep 25 12:00am 4:15pm - 5 Maya Ballet

Fri Sep 26 8:30am pt Olin
12:00pm Lunch with Guy Ortolano

Sat Sep 27 2:00pm Maya Glass Palette

Mon Sep 29 12:00am Rosh Hashana ends Oct 1

christian@christian-laptop:~$ sudo gedit .gcal.sh.
[sudo] password for christian:
christian@christian-laptop:~$ sh /home/christian/gcal.sh
sh: Can't open /home/christian/gcal.sh
christian@christian-laptop:~$

I created the script file and then renamed the txt file and then entered the command into the terminal. But what am I doing wrong? It's probably ovbious to well seasoned users, but not me. And I have no pride about this so point out the obvious! Thanks

[unutbu]

Try this:

sudo chown $USER:$USER .gcal.sh. # Makes you (the normal user) owner of the script
mv .gcal.sh. gcal.sh # Changes the name of the script to gcal.sh
chmod +x gcal.sh # Makes sure the script is executable
./gal.sh # Runs the script

Explanation:
When you run
sudo gedit .gcal.sh.
you are creating a file called ".gcal.sh." as root. So the file becomes owned by root.
Also, the file should be called "gcal.sh", rather than ".gcal.sh."

[Madwida]

Thanks! :guitar:

I think the problem was simply that I had added the . to the sh. I read your instructions to include the ., but it turns out it was just a period.

I have included a screenshot of it working.

[pt123]

Good to hear

[Madwida]

Try this:

sudo chown $USER:$USER .gcal.sh. # Makes you (the normal user) owner of the script
mv .gcal.sh. gcal.sh # Changes the name of the script to gcal.sh
chmod +x gcal.sh # Makes sure the script is executable
./gal.sh # Runs the script

Explanation:
When you run
sudo gedit .gcal.sh.
you are creating a file called ".gcal.sh." as root. So the file becomes owned by root.
Also, the file should be called "gcal.sh", rather than ".gcal.sh."


Hi again,

I went to log on this evening and am locked in an infinite log in loop (right now I am in failsafe gnome). Could it be that following the above somehow changed my user status? If so, how do I undo the change? If not, any ideas as to what might have happened--the only changes I have made to the system are the ones followed here.

Many thanks

[Madwida]

And this is a message from syslog:

Sep 25 19:14:26 christian-laptop gdm[6133]: WARNING: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0

[lilong10]

Well actually no, the problem come from the weather calendar I was using witinh my Google calendar, I deleted it, and is now working fine.

Many thanks, great how to!

I had the same problem too... The script worked fine after I deleted weather calendar.

I wonder if that's because the weather calendar has a user id but no password?

[pt123]

And this is a message from syslog:

Sep 25 19:14:26 christian-laptop gdm[6133]: WARNING: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0

boot in recovery mode

go into a terminal

cd /home
ls

post output of ls here

if you find your user directory
cd yourusername

then
ls -a

and see if you have folders inside

from this this thread
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=140365

you might want to try and rename these files to some other name and reboot
~/.gnome2/session
~/.gnome2/session-manual

[Madwida]

boot in recovery mode

go into a terminal

cd /home
ls

post output of ls here

if you find your user directory
cd yourusername

then
ls -a

and see if you have folders inside


from this this thread
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=140365

you might want to try and rename these files to some other name and reboot
~/.gnome2/session
~/.gnome2/session-manual

Thanks. Here's the output. I did not run it from recovery mode as I was able to log in after changing the desktop background (as suggested in another thread; I have no idea why that worked) while working in failsafe gnome.

Hope this helps:

christian@christian-laptop:~$ cd /home
christian@christian-laptop:/home$ ls
christian
christian@christian-laptop:/home$ ls -a
. .. christian
christian@christian-laptop:/home$
christian@christian-laptop:/home$

[pt123]

you left out the step :
cd yourusername
i.e
cd christian

[Madwida]

you left out the step :
cd yourusername
i.e
cd christian

Ooops. Is this what you need?

christian@christian-laptop:~$ cd /home
christian@christian-laptop:/home$ ls
christian
christian@christian-laptop:/home$ ls -a
. .. christian
christian@christian-laptop:/home$
christian@christian-laptop:/home$ cd /home
christian@christian-laptop:/home$ ls
christian
christian@christian-laptop:/home$ cd christian
christian@christian-laptop:~$ ls -a
. .gnome2_private
.. .gnupg
.adobe .gstreamer-0.10
array-apt-key.asc .gtk-bookmarks
.bash_history .gvfs
.bash_logout .ICEauthority
.bashrc .icons
.cache Intuition.emerald
.compiz .local
.config .macromedia
.conkyrc madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3835-20080801
.conkyrc~ madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3835-20080801.tar.gz
.conky_start.sh .metacity
Desktop .mozilla
.dmrc .mozilla-thunderbird
Documents Music
eee-osd_2.1-0eeeXubuntu1_i386.deb .nautilus
eeepc-linux .openoffice.org2
eeepc-linux-0.2.tar.gz Pictures
.emerald .profile
.esd_auth Public
Examples .pulse
.fontconfig .pulse-cookie
.fr-VgHgzu .recently-used
.gcalclirc .recently-used.xbel
.gcal.sh RiceeeyTweak.sh
.gcal.sh~ .screenlets
.gcal.sh.~ .ssh
gcal.sh .sudo_as_admin_successful
gcal.sh~ Templates
gcal.sh. .themes
gcal.sh.~ .thumbnails
gcal.txt .update-manager-core
.gconf .update-notifier
.gconfd Videos
.gksu.lock .Xauthority
.gnome .xsession-errors
.gnome2
christian@christian-laptop:~$

[pt123]

cd into .gnome2
and rename these two files and try rebooting
session
session-manual

so the instructions to do the above, after you have "cd usernamed"
cd .gnome2
mv session session_old
mv session-manual session-manual_old

[Madwida]

cd into .gnome2
and rename these two files and try rebooting
session
session-manual

so the instructions to do the above, after you have "cd usernamed"
cd .gnome2
mv session session_old
mv session-manual session-manual_old

Hi again

Am I missing something? I just do not seem to able to get this! Please see new output. And again: many thanks for the help

christian@christian-laptop:/home$ cd chrstian
bash: cd: chrstian: No such file or directory
christian@christian-laptop:/home$ cd christian
christian@christian-laptop:~$ cd .gnome2
christian@christian-laptop:~/.gnome2$ mv session_old
mv: missing destination file operand after `session_old'
Try `mv --help' for more information.
christian@christian-laptop:~/.gnome2$ mv session-manual session-manual_old
mv: cannot stat `session-manual': No such file or directory
christian@christian-laptop:~/.gnome2$

[pt123]

mv session_old


You need to see an optometrist.

That is not why I wrote in my post.

[Madwida]

You need to see an optometrist.

That is not why I wrote in my post.

Perhaps you're joking around, but I am trying to follow your instructions, I am grateful for. So, if I make a mistake, well, I guess it turns out I'm human

[Madwida]

Perhaps you're joking around, but I am trying to follow your instructions, I am grateful for. So, if I make a mistake, well, I guess it turns out I'm human

So, now my panel is missing. I realize I did not properly follow your instructions, but now I'd like to get my panel back. Is there some way to do this? And, is possible, keep Google calendar in Conky as I really like it?

[Madwida]

So, now my panel is missing. I realize I did not properly follow your instructions, but now I'd like to get my panel back. Is there some way to do this? And, is possible, keep Google calendar in Conky as I really like it?

Hi

Just a little more info: I went in via failsafe terminal; ran gnome-panel; then killall gnome-panel; then rebooted; then ran failsafe gnome and changed the desktop background (as suggested in another post). I was then able to log, with Conky and your Google calendar script added, in after having changed the desktop background.

But I wonder what happened and whether or not the steps you suggested above (which, yes, I mistakenly did not follow precisely) can be run again?

Thanks from a noobie!

[pt123]

But I wonder what happened and whether or not the steps you suggested above (which, yes, I mistakenly did not follow precisely) can be run again?
Why do you want to run them again if everything is back to normal?

If you lose the panel you can run this in the terminal it will install the default panels
sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-panel

[AppleSteve]

Nice tutorial, Google Calendar is quite a decent piece of software, got me out of trouble at the wekend, too :D, thanks.

[Madwida]

Why do you want to run them again if everything is back to normal?

If you lose the panel you can run this in the terminal it will install the default panels
sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-panel

Hi

I'd like to run them again b/c I have to repeat these steps each time I want to get back into my system. I am still stuck in the infinite loop and my panel is still missing (yes, I will run the reinstall noted above). But I would like to reset things back to where they were when I first installed Google cal into Conky. I am too new at this to be able to simply go back and undo things. Please help--thanks!

[pt123]

you are combining steps from different how to's I have no clue where you are.

You pretty much have to do a step by step with screenshots for anyone to know and see what you are seeing.

[pt123]

small update the default agenda function only gets the next 5 days. Sometimes you might not have many items in those 5 days.
So you might want to get the the list of items for the next 2 months.
To do this follow this you can adjust you script to this:


#!/bin/bash
#figure out the dates
todaysDate=`date +"%m/%d/%Y"`
monthsAhead=`date --date='2 months' +"%m/%d/%Y"`

gcalcli --nc agenda $todaysDate $monthsAhead

[Piraja]

Hey, thanks for the tutorial!

I'm having some difficulties; when I try to launch Conky this is what I get:

Conky: head logfile does not exist, or you do not have correct permissions

I can assure you my permission are right. And if I remove the last line

${head ~/.gcal/gcal.txt 10 20}

it works fine again, without Google Calendar, of course. I could access Google Calendar via Terminal, following your instructions, but could not integrate it into my custom .conkyrc. PFA my working .conkyrc as well as the modified version, with your lines added.

(You can see screenshots of my Conky in my other posts, e.g. this (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6292492&postcount=53) stupid quuestion.)

[pt123]

rather than using ~/.gcal.....

try using /home/yourusername/.gcal....

[Piraja]

Thanks! That worked.

[MikeBrown]

Hey,
First off thanks for typing out this tutorial. It would really add to my conky if I could get it to work (I've probably made a mistake somewhere)

I can't get past the gcalcli --nc agenda terminal testing command.

Here's my output:
exeter@Vordhosbn:~$ gcalcli --nc agenda
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gcalcli", line 1114, in <module>
DoooooItHippieMonster()
File "/usr/bin/gcalcli", line 959, in DoooooItHippieMonster
cfg = LoadConfig(configFile)
File "/usr/bin/gcalcli", line 881, in LoadConfig
config.read(os.path.expanduser(configFile))
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/ConfigParser.py", line 267, in read
self._read(fp, filename)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/ConfigParser.py", line 462, in _read
raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: /home/exeter/.gcalclirc, line: 1
'user: emmersonbrown\n'

I went onto my google calendar and noticed that I too had the weather calendar activated, so i removed it. I then did a killall of conky to reboot it (perhaps that may fix it): Nope.

I followed your instructions exactly as they should've been
The gcal.sh and gcal.txt files are in the path '/home/exeter/'

gcal.sh includes this command:
#!/bin/bash
gcalcli --nc agenda | tee /home/exeter/gcal.txt

gcal.txt is empty. Not sure if it's supposed to be.

.gcalclirc is also in home/exeter/ and includes:
user: emmersonbrown
pw: [password in lower case]

Any help that could be given would be greatly appreciated!

Again, thanks for helping out, just wish I could figure out why it doesn't work for me!

[MikeBrown]

I don't know if it's that part that's causing the error as the gcalcli --agenda command in terminal isn't giving the schedule as it's supposed to, instead it's giving the dooitmonsterhippie nonsense...
I don't know why it's not giving the right output, but I think it's a configuration problem before i get to the other files.

[pt123]

Hey,
.gcalclirc is also in home/exeter/ and includes:
user: emmersonbrown
pw: [password in lower case]


Do you have the this line at the top of your .gcalclirc
[gcalcli]

[MikeBrown]

Yes. When I booted up today conky wouldn't even start...

I think I broke it...

***EDIT: Sorry, I'll be more specific. Conky will not launch and is giving me the same "Head Does Not Exist" error that another user was getting earlier in this thread.
OUTPUT:
Conky: use_spacer should have an argument of left, right, or none. 'yes' seems to be some form of 'true', so defaulting to right. [(I've been getting this error since I installed,
I don't think it has to do with anything in this thread)]
Conky: can't parse X color '#FF6600T'
Conky: head logfile does not exist, or you do not have correct permissions

I looked in my .conkyrc file to see if I was trying to pull from ~/.gcal but here's the line that was in there: " ${head /home/exter/gcal.txt 10 20}" So I don't think that's the case. If I remove the "${head...." line I pasted in the previous sentence, then Conky does still start up.

***EDIT #2: I realized that my ${head/.... line was missing an "e" as my login name is "exeter" not "exter".... gotta love those little mistakes that break the whole program lol. Now conky loads and it shows "Logfile empty" at the bottom of conky where my calendar would go. I don't know why I'm getting this error as there are things scheduled for today, tomorrow and next Tuesday. I assume the calendar has a 7 day outlook? Or is it 5?

[pt123]

***EDIT #2: I realized that my ${head/.... line was missing an "e" as my login name is "exeter" not "exter".... gotta love those little mistakes that break the whole program lol. Now conky loads and it shows "Logfile empty" at the bottom of conky where my calendar would go. I don't know why I'm getting this error as there are things scheduled for today, tomorrow and next Tuesday. I assume the calendar has a 7 day outlook? Or is it 5?

Logfile is empty it just means that there is not data.

What happens when you run gcalcli in a terminal?

Also when you wrote password in lowercase, I am assuming you no uppercase letters in your password.

[MikeBrown]

exeter@Vordhosbn:~$ gcalcli
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gcalcli", line 1114, in <module>
DoooooItHippieMonster()
File "/usr/bin/gcalcli", line 959, in DoooooItHippieMonster
cfg = LoadConfig(configFile)
File "/usr/bin/gcalcli", line 881, in LoadConfig
config.read(os.path.expanduser(configFile))
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/ConfigParser.py", line 267, in read
self._read(fp, filename)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/ConfigParser.py", line 462, in _read
raise MissingSectionHeaderError(fpname, lineno, line)
ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError: File contains no section headers.
file: /home/exeter/.gcalclirc, line: 1
' [gcalcli]\n'

No, my password does not have any upper-case letters in it, meaning it's stored in the Google servers as 'cheeseburger' not CheeseBurger' or etc.

***EDIT: The script just started working. I don't know if I touched something, moved something around, sneezed on my computer wrong or what, but it's working now....

Thanks to the OP for this how-to, once the thanks button returns I will be sure to click it for ya!

- Mike

[pt123]

Good to hear

[MikeBrown]

Is there a command that I can enter into terminal to force the gcal to update? It doesn't seem to be doing so automatically. I've had one event showing up in calendar since it started working and when i do the gcalcli --nc agenda command in terminal it shows new events, it's just not writing to the gcal.txt

***EDIT: Nevermind, I went back and read the crontab entry. Plus the /sh /pathtofile/gcal.sh entry.
Problem Solved!

[Tohasj]

I've tried to setup my Conky for reading my Google Calender, but I have a little problem. When I execute the gcal.sh manually everything is normal and my appointmens are visible in Conky.

But I've setup my crontab to execute gcal.sh every half hour. That happens fine but only the first appointment is written to the gcal.txt file. And so also the first apointment is visible in Conky.

My crontab file contains this rule:

30 * * * * /etc/conky/scripts/gcal.sh

After this bash is executed the gcal.txt file contains only this:


Sun Feb 15 8:00pm Indienen laatste studiemeting

Thu Feb 19

Can someone please help me?
Thanks in advance

[pt123]

My crontab file contains this rule:

30 * * * * /etc/conky/scripts/gcal.sh

After this bash is executed the gcal.txt file contains only this:

Thanks in advance

Why are you running that script from /etc/conky folder wouldn't you need sudo permissions to execute it?

To get the script to run every 30 minutes cron needs to be like this:
*/30 * * * * /home/yourusername/scripts/gcal.sh

[Tohasj]

Thanks, I will try it out this evening

[paranoidandroidz]

By default, anyone know when the cron would update the gcal agenda if I didnt touch it. Im using Jaunty btw.

thanks

[pt123]

not sure exactly what you mean, was it runnning (in Ibex)?

anyway you view your current cron by doing this
cat /etc/crontab

[paranoidandroidz]

sorry my misunderstanding, I didnt realise I had to update the crontab otherwise it wouldnt update. Its still all fairly new to me. The script updates it when I run it so hopefully

1 12 * * * /home/d/gcal.sh

means it will update at 12.01pm everyday.

Great tutorial btw, cheers for your help as well

[paranoidandroidz]

ok that didnt work, and it wasnt jus because I missed the 0 in front.

When I run the script in terminal it updates my conky but it does come up with this message:

/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead
import sha

Any ideas?

[pt123]

There seems to be a bug in Jaunty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/subvertpy/+bug/323270

it is a warning so it should still run fine,

I think your crontab is wrong can you check the tutorial I linked to in the original post

[paranoidandroidz]

hi thanks for your reply

If I look at cat /etc/crontab then theres no jobs listed

But if I run crontab -l it shows the one I ve created. I even used your example from the previous page and still nothing. I dont get it.

Maybe theres a couple of bugs like you mention, I may have to revisit in a couple of weeks, Im sure I would have exerted less energy if I jus manually run the script every couple of days for the next 2 years....

I wish i'd stayed on 8.10 now, ushare stopped working with my xbox as well, but anyway thats for a different day

Cheers for all your help

[pt123]

hi thanks for your reply

If I look at cat /etc/crontab then theres no jobs listed

Does it have text like this

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
# m h dom mon dow user command
17 * * * * root cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )



But if I run crontab -l it shows the one I ve created. I even used your example from the previous page and still nothing. I dont get it.

I added the following to get the script to run every minutes on Jaunty.
*/5 * * * * /home/myuserdir/scripts/gcalAgenda.sh
add it is running fine as the output text file has it's mod. date changed every five minutes.

Do you have the script file set to executable? (as cron needs this)
su chmod +x /pathToScriptFile/gcal.sh


I wish i'd stayed on 8.10 now,
So was this tutorial working on Ibex for you or is this the first time you are trying it?

[paranoidandroidz]

hi, thank you so much, its all working now, I copied your example of the every 5 minutes and it worked, I must have had a spelling mistake or sumthin, hours of fidlin and it was probably schoolboy, appreciate you spending the time.

Now, if only I can figure out how to get this in the middle of my screen.

[pt123]

conky lets you set padding so you can align it to the left and place the padding to 40% times the width of your resolution

[paranoidandroidz]

many thanks, I shall look into it

[gighsmighly]

Hi! I very much appreciate your coding efforts as it will greatly improve my productivity (once i get it working) during this semester..

my problem is:

[samuel@vii Stems]$ ./gcalcli calw

$ ./gcalcli calw

+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+
|Sunday |Monday |Tuesday |Wednesday |Thursday |Friday |Saturday |
+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+
|23 Aug |24 Aug |25 Aug |26 Aug |27 Aug |28 Aug ***|29 Aug |
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./gcalcli", line 1114, in <module>
DoooooItHippieMonster()
File "./gcalcli", line 1066, in DoooooItHippieMonster
gcal.CalQuery(args[0])
File "./gcalcli", line 819, in CalQuery
self._GraphEvents(cmd, start, count, eventList)
File "./gcalcli", line 543, in _GraphEvents
eventList)
File "./gcalcli", line 396, in _GetWeekEventStrings
tmpTimeStr.strip() + " " + event.title.text.strip()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'strip'


wassap w/ dat?

i'm on fedora10 fluxbox

[suurvey]

i dunno

[pt123]

Hi! I very much appreciate your coding efforts as it will greatly improve my productivity (once i get it working) during this semester..

my problem is:

[samuel@vii Stems]$ ./gcalcli calw

i'm on fedora10 fluxbox

it could be this :
fails at empty event description
http://code.google.com/p/gcalcli/issues/detail?id=26

[Deguello]

Well actually no, the problem come from the weather calendar I was using witinh my Google calendar, I deleted it, and is now working fine.

Many thanks, great how to!

I too was having a difficult time trying to figure out why I was having a problem and it boiled down to the weather calender within google calender...it was not good enough to uncheck it, but I had to actually unsubscribe to get the script to return anything....

[hudebuntu]

"You need to create the script file below to update the file with your Google Calendar data.
In the script you need to set 1 variable, the file path to the text file that will hold the calendar data."



Code:
#!/bin/bash
gcalcli --nc agenda | tee /pathToTextFile/gcal.txt

Hi, I am new to ubuntu and I dont really know how to accomplish these steps above. Can someone explain me in details?? :confused:

Thanks a lot

[hudebuntu]

meanwhile i found a site which explains it really simply how to use google calender with conky:

http://ubuntuguide.net/display-google-calendar-on-ubuntu-desktop-using-conky


But now it shows me just 2 weeks and not four...how can i configure that???? (first it was ok but now one half of my conky calender is cut off)

[pt123]

you need to increase the size of the conky window, post a screenshot

[wpwend42]

Okay I am trying to install this, but I get to this point...

n the script you need to set 1 variable, the file path to the text file that will hold the calendar data.


Code:
#!/bin/bash
gcalcli --nc agenda | tee /pathToTextFile/gcal.txt
Edit: This post explains how to get your agenda for the next 2 months
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...9&postcount=45

You need to cut and past the above code into a file called gcal.sh.

Two things...


How do I create gcal.sh.?
Where does it go?

[pt123]

wherever you keep your script files
eg. /home/your_username/scripts/gcal.sh

to create it
gedit /home/your_username/scripts/gcal.sh