! ! ! THIS GUIDE IS FOR ADVANCED USER ONLY ! ! !
You will need a lot of additional tools and deep system modifications to get this to work!
First
Open a Terminal now. If you don't know how, this Geeklet is not for you!
Pre Requirements Installation
1) Get CURL:
Check if you have it:
$ curl --version
If you see curl's version, you have it. Else install it. I installed via 'brew', brew install curl.
2) Get Python 2.x:
Check if you have it:
$ python --version
Should be 2.x. Else grab it from somewhere. (For example brew install pyhton.
3) Get GCalCLI
Grab it by hand from it's webpage.
Unzip/Untar the file. Create the folder ~/bin/. Move the gcalcli to ~/bin/.
$ mkdir ~/.bin/;
$ cd ~/.bin/;
$ wget https://gcalcli.googlecode.com/files/gcalcli-2.1.tgz
$ open gcalcli.tgz
4) Install the GCalCLI Dependencies. The same steps apply for all of the dependencies. Just file names and URLs change. You will need these files:
elementtree-1.2.7-[blablabla].zippython-dateutil-1.5.tar.gzDO NOT DOWNLOAD 2.x, as it would not work because we have only Python 2.x !vobject-0.8.1c.tar.gz
4.1) Download each of these files.
4.2) Extract them. Each in a separate folder!
4.3) For each one, find the 'setup.py' file. cd to the folder where this file lies and install it:
$ sudo pyhton setup.py install
5) Setup the config file
5.1) First execute:
$ cp ~
$ touch gcalclirc.txt
$ open gcalclirc.txt
5.2) Your default OSX TextEditor should have opened. Enter the following and save (!) the file:
[gcalcli]
user: <your google username>
pw: <your google password>
# The following lines are optional
24hr: true
details: true
ignore-started: true
mon: true
5.3) Quit the Editor and switch back to the Terminal. Execute:
$ mv gcalclirc.txt .gcalclirc
$ chmod a-r,o+r,a-w,o+w .gcalclirc
6) Test gcalcli:
$ gcalcli list
This should display a list of all google calendars you have access to.
7) One last step:
$ cd /tmp
$ touch launchd.conf.txt; open launchd.conf.txt
Insert the following line, save and close (!) the file:
setenv PATH ~/bin
Return to the Terminal
$ sudo cp launchd.conf.txt /private/etc/launchd.conf
Reboot your Mac now. Then your done with the preparations.
Geeklet
Don't worry. It's easy now.
Create a Shell Geeklet on your desktop
Set this as command:
echo "AGENDA"; ~/bin/gcalcli --nc --cals=owner --details agenda | egrep -iv "Length|Content|Reminder" | egrep -i "^ +.*:|^(\w\w\w )" | head -21
Hint: For more beauty, use a monospace (aka fixed-width) font.
This will display a list of all your Appointments with Location, but no description, no reminder texts, just without any noise.
Cheers, Chris
