Calendar desklet

by kanchudeep

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UUID: calendar@deeppradhan

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2 weeks ago 2025-08-26, 13:25

Last commit: [f889f045] Adds/updates Italian translations (#1566)

Configurable Calendar desklet

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Calendar Desklet

Calendar Desklet provides a highly configurable desklet to display current date and browsable months. It has a number of possible customisations.

Major Features:

Consists of a day panel and a month panel. Both or one of can be selected to be shown.
Various fields of day panel (weekday, time etc.) can be customised.
The month panel allows scrolling through various months.
Font family and size of desklet text is customisable.
Colour of text and background can be set (including different colour for Sundays & Saturdays).

CHANGELOG

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ferslash-11 months ago

hi... i tryed to use a personalized date format where i could see the number of the week, it should be done with %w... but dont work... i tryed in other desklets and mint apps and i got error in all the apps... could this be fix?

Rick Calixte-10 months ago

This is because it has not been implemented in GLib (the library which is used to format the strings): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/blob/a893d622/glib/gdatetime.c#L3709-3715.

DanTX25-11 months ago

Completely selfish/lazy question: Is there a quick and dirty way to get it to color Thursdays (paydays) instead of Saturdays? Very nice app, very polished and configurable.

Rick Calixte-11 months ago

At the moment, no. This feature is probably out of scope as well. Have you considered using one of the other calendar desklets or the calendar applet for this?

DanTX25-11 months ago

I have, but due to said laziness, how well the desklet works as is (and the fact that i don't really need it,) that I didn't look that hard. I asked Chatgpt to take a crack at changing the js file, and to be fair, it could have done it, but it skeeved out the part of me that desperately wanted to be a programmer in the past to the point that I gave up on it (it felt like being the lady who "restored" the "Behold the Man" painting.) Sorry for rambling.

Rick Romig-1 year ago

How do I move the desklet to location on the screen.

Rick Calixte-1 year ago

Hi Rick, assuming that desklets aren't locked (currently, the last option in the third tab in the Desklet settings), you should be able to drag and drop this desklet to whatever location you want on your desktop.

alberbrando-1 year ago

How can I get rid of the shadows of letters?? I like plain text

alberbrando-2 years ago

Thanks,good Desklet.

richo-2 years ago

I'm lovin 'it

richo-3 years ago

thanks you

claudemontreal-3 years ago

Doesn't work. Says "Execute gcalendar" in the desklet without any instruction on how to do so.

Alexander Savvin-4 years ago

Nice desklet. But one thing is needed one thing: in my and many others countries a week starts by monday. I didn't find any parameter for this setting.

aizma-4 years ago

Forgot to mention the files will be available till Jan 15, 2021as it is a free filesharing service not allowing me to store them permanently without creating an unnecessary account

aizma-4 years ago

OK, I created a repo for this to make it more transparent https://github.com/aizma/Calendar-desklet---first-day-Monday

alberbrando-2 years ago

Thanks,Aizma for the job. I have also changed the Week day names to my mother language Spanish and now it is a wonderful desklet.

aizma-4 years ago

Hi, I had the same problem so I modified the source code. You can download it from https://files.fm/u/6hkt5x8qu Replace calendar.js and desklet.js in ~/.local/share/cinnamon/desklets/calendar@deeppradhan and restart cinnamon or log-out + log-in.

Fire-SKull-5 years ago

ok thank you.

Fire-SKull-5 years ago

Hello, as I see there is not much interest in helping a newbie, I expected more help in Linux

mfreeman72-5 years ago

I suspect you would get a more prompt response from the developer's Github site. Scroll up to the top of this page and click either the "Website" button between "Issues" and "Download", or just the "Issues" button, depending on your intent/needs. Not enough people visit these spices pages to make any kind of discussion like this useful.

Fire-SKull-5 years ago

Hello, I would like to know if someone can help me to translate the desklet into Spanish and change the starting day of the week from Sunday to Monday, Because I am new to these topics and ask for help in performing these tasks. Greetings and thanks

rogelio06-5 years ago

you know what? I wanted to change language to spanish, and it took me no more than 5 minutes, editing just some lines on the js. This is cool man, I mean cool cool. Well done job.

callagg2-6 years ago

Using LMDE 3 Cindy, Cinnamon 4.0.10. Icons Mint -Y, Controls Mint -Y, Desktop Mint-Y-Dark At the top of the calendar, there are arrows either side of the Month/Year, left to go back a month, right to go forward a month. These are arrows are not showing, instead i just get a white square. Likewise, for today, I just get a white square. This happens in Month only, and Both Today and Month only. I have opted for white text and a transparent background - every other date is appearing in white font correctly, likewise, the Saturday/Sunday are appearing in the red font that I chose.

callagg2-3 years ago

every time this desklet is updated, these symbols break! Can i turn off automatic updating of this desklet?

callagg2-5 years ago

Just installed LMDE Debbie - but the issue is also happening with LM 19.3 - with default desktop settings. At the top of the calendar, there are arrows either side of the Month/Year, left to go back a month, right to go forward a month. These are arrows are not showing, instead i just get a white square. There is nowhere in settings allowing me to change the colour.

callagg2-5 years ago

Found a solution, Using Xed open ~.local/share/cinnamon/desklets/calendar@deeppradhan/desklet.js Change this.labelPrevious.set_text("\u2BC7"); to this.labelPrevious.set_text("\u22B2"); Change this.labelPrevious.set_text("\u2BC8"); to this.labelPrevious.set_text("\u22B2"); Then reload the desklet and the back and next arrow will be visible

callagg2-3 years ago

no, the edit above no longer works, must now use the following this.labelPrevious.set_text("\u25C0"); this.labelNext.set_text("\u25B6");

IDTakasu-5 years ago

Находим папку desklets/calendar@deeppradhan, а в ней файл - desklet.js, 77 и 79 строка меняем на < и >

callagg2-6 years ago

This issue is no more :-) - it seems to have disappeared after an update to Mint themes in the Update Manager over the past day or so.

Zzombiee2361-7 years ago

Nice desklet. Can you please add 12 hour mode for the clock? And add some margin to the calendar, it looks cramped.

Calendar desklet

README

Calendar Desklet

Major Features:

CHANGELOG

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1.1.1

1.1

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