gsimplecal - lightweight calendar applet
gsimplecal
[-h|--help|-v|--version|next_month|prev_month]
This manual page documents the usage of the gsimplecal
command.
gsimplecal is a lightweight calendar applet. When it is
started, it first shows up, when you run it again, it closes the running
instance, thus making it very easy to integrate anywhere without the need to
make some wrapper scripts.
It was intentionally made for use with tint2 panel to be launched
upon clock click, but of course it will work with any other panel, or no
panel at all. For example you can bind it to some hotkey in you window
manager config.
You may also configure gsimplecal to display different
world time zones clocks. See the CONFIGURATION section for
details.
- -v, --version
- Print the program name and version to stdout, then exit with code 0.
- -h, --help
- Print the short usage help to stderr, then exit with error code 2.
- prev_month,
next_month
- If the program is not running, simply run it. If the program is running,
change currently displayed month.
If no options and commands are given, the program is toggled, i.e.
if it is running it stops, otherwise it starts.
To configure the application you should manually create the
configuration file. The file is first searched in
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gsimplecal/config. Usually that will be
~/.config/gsimplecal/config.
If found, it is used. If not found, system-wide configuration is
searched in all the $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/gsimplecal/config locations.
- show_calendar = 1
show_timezones = 1
mark_today = 1
show_week_numbers = 0
close_on_unfocus = 0
external_viewer = sunbird -showdate "%Y-%m-%d"
clock_format = %a %d %b %H:%M
force_lang = en_US.utf8
mainwindow_decorated = 0
mainwindow_keep_above = 1
mainwindow_sticky = 0
mainwindow_skip_taskbar = 1
mainwindow_resizable = 0
mainwindow_position = none
mainwindow_xoffset = 0
mainwindow_yoffset = 0
clock_label = UTC
clock_tz = :UTC
clock_label = Local
clock_tz =
The options are pretty self explanatory, but here is detailed
description:
- show_calendar:
1 or 0, defaults to 1.
- Sets whether the calendar should be shown. Most users want this option to
be 1.
- show_timezones:
1 or 0, defaults to 0.
- Sets whether the different time zone clocks should be shown.
- mark_today:
1 or 0, defaults to 1.
- Sets whether today's date will be marked in the calendar (besides the
default selection, i.e. when you click on the other day, today will remain
marked somehow, e.g. in bold print).
- show_week_numbers:
1 or 0, defaults to 0.
- Sets whether week numbers are shown in the calendar.
- close_on_unfocus:
1 or 0, defaults to 0.
- Sets whether the calendar will close if the window loses focus. Note that
if mainwindow_skip_taskbar is set to 1 then the calendar window may not be
given focus upon creation
- external_viewer:
string, defaults to empty string.
- Command line to run when doubleclicking a date. This string is strftime'd
(see man strftime for the possible substitutions) and passed to the
shell. Thus you can use pipes, redirections, and whatever, I hope.
Currently the shell is hardcoded to /bin/sh though. I hope that will do for
all the users, but if you've got a trouble, please file a ticket (see
REPORTING BUGS).
- clock_format:
string
- Sets the clocks format. Look man strftime for the possible formats.
- force_lang:
string
- Overrides the LANG environment variable, thus making it possible to
change the first day of week, i.e. choose if Monday or Sunday goes first.
Basically it's the same as running gsimplecal as
LANG=en_GB.utf8 gsimplecal
Must be one of locale -a output.
- mainwindow_decorated:
1 or 0, defaults to 0.
- Tells your window manager to decorate or not to decorate the main window.
- mainwindow_keep_above:
1 or 0, defaults to 1.
- Sets whether the main window should be placed on top of other windows by
your window manager.
- mainwindow_sticky:
1 or 0, defaults to 0.
- Tells your window manager to show gsimplecal on all desktops.
- mainwindow_skip_taskbar:
1 or 0, defaults to 1.
- Sets whether the main window should be shown in the task list by your
panel or window manager.
- mainwindow_resizable:
1 or 0, defaults to 1.
- Sets whether your window manager should allow the main window to be
resized. If you are using a tiling window manager which supports floating
windows, setting this options to 0 will most likely tell your WM not to
tile the window. (Tested with XMonad and Awesome).
- mainwindow_position:
mouse|center|none, defaults to mouse.
- Tells your window manager where to place the gsimplecal window:
-
mouse
-
close to the mouse cursor position (this one is useful when you bind
gsimplecal on some mouse click command);
-
center
-
in the center of the screen;
-
none
-
it's up to your window manager to decide, where to place the window (this
one is useful when you bind gsimplecal invocation on some hotkey, so you
can configure your window manager to place gsimplecal in some predefined
position).
- mainwindow_xoffset
and mainwindow_yoffset: integer, default to 0.
- Allow for main window position fine tuning. Throw an integer at these, and
it'll move the window by that number of pixels.
- clock_label
and clock_tz: string
- These two options should go in pairs and must be in the order
given.
Each pair creates new clock. The clock_label variable sets the string to be
displayed near the clock, the clock_tz sets the time zone.
If you omit the value for clock_tz, local time will be shown.
For a list of time zones see man timezone, or ls
/usr/share/zoneinfo
You may use the following keyboard accelerators while gsimplecal
window has a focus (not yet configurable):
- Escape,
Ctrl+w, Ctrl+q
- Close the window.
- n
- Switch to the next month.
- p
- Switch to the previous month.
- N
- Jump one year forward.
- P
- Jump one year backward.
- hjkl
- Vi-style dates navigation:
h -> left
j -> down
k -> up
l -> right
- g, Home
- Jump to the current date.
Please, report any issues to the gsimplecal issue tracker,
available at: https://github.com/dmedvinsky/gsimplecal/issues
Created by Dmitry Medvinsky et al.