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Selecting theme which is manually installed To switch theme, go to menu > System Settings > Themes > Desktop > select the theme you just installed. Just create the folder manually if you don't find it. tar.gz format, extract it, and put the extracted folder into ~/.themes folder. You will find so many Cinnamon Themes available in the official website.

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The Software Source program including speed test to show you which mirror faster than the others. Go to main menu and find Software Sources to switch both Main and Base repositories to local mirrors. Local mirror often faster than foreign ones.

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Read also about Mint 19: download links and easy installation guide. Subscribe to UbuntuBuzz Telegram Channel to get article updates directly. I hope this list will be useful as a simple guide for you all.

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You will find here usual stuffs like switching repository and installing themes, as well as making a 'System Restore' (ah yes, this is a new feature) and applications recommendation, plus some other stuffs. For new comers especially those with MS Windows prior experience, this list will help you check up what you need in starting Mint 19. To add it to startup, open Startup Applications or equivalent from your application launcher, add a new startup program, enter Conky Google Calendar as its name, and use the following in the command field:Īlternatively you can create a file called sktop in ~/.Linux Mint 19 LTS has been released a while and still, this is the traditional recommended things to do (with new stuffs!) after installing it, particularly for Cinnamon Edition. (Optional) Add the Google Calendar Conky desktop widget to startup. Also, I used the -nolineart gcalcli option (or -lineart=ascii instead of this, for newer gcalcli versions), which disables line art, because Conky can't display gcalcli's line art properly.ĥ. This is how the widget will look on your desktop:įor even more customization, check the gcalcli -help and the GitHub project page.Īs a side note, gcalcli is ran using PYTHONIOENCODING=utf8 to avoid some possible issues with the calendar display - you can remove this if the calendar is displayed correctly for you. Own_window_hints = 'undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager', conkyrc in your home folder (use Ctrl + H to toggle between hiding and showing hidden files and folders) and paste the following in this file: Create and populate the Conky configuration file ( ~/.conkyrc).Ĭreate a file called. Gcalcli should open a new page in your default web browser which asks if you want to authorize gcalcli with your Google account. You need to run gcalcli with any option to start the OAuth2 authentication process.

Connect gcalcli with your Google account. This should be installed by default in Ubuntu.Ģ.

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You'll also need to install the Ubuntu Mono font (or you can change the font in the. You'll need Conky 1.10 or newer to use the Conky configuration below.

The Conky configuration file in this article uses the Conky 1.10 syntax. There are optional steps for customizing Conky, the calendar colors, and more, as well as adding this widget to startup. Related: MineTime: Desktop Calendar App With Google Calendar,, Microsoft Exchange, iCloud And CalDAV Supportįollow the steps below to install Conky and gcalcli, and use these tools to embed Google Calendar on the desktop background. Using OAuth2 to connect with your Google account, the tool can list your Google Calendars, add, edit and delete calendar events, and much more.

gcalcli is a command line interface for Google Calendar.

It can act as a system monitor, having some built-in functions to display the CPU usage, RAM, etc., as well as display custom commands output, among others.

Conky is a tool that displays information on your desktop.

It also includes some customization hints.Ĭonky and gcalcli are used to display your Google Calendar events on top of your desktop wallpaper:

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This article explains how to embed a Google Calendar widget on your Linux desktop background.

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