Gsimplecal

Gsimplecal is a lightweight calendar applet written in C++ using GTK.

It was intentionally made for use with tint2 panel in the openbox environment to be launched upon clock click, but of course it will work without it. In fact, binding the gsimplecal to some hotkey in you window manager will probably make you happy. The thing is that when it is started it first shows up, when you run it again it closes the running instance. In that way it is very easy to integrate anywhere. No need to write some wrapper scripts or whatever.

Also, you can configure it to not only show the calendar, but also display multiple clocks for different world timezones. Read the manual page for the details (there is info about keyboard controls as well!).

Binary packages

There are several maintained packages that I know of:

1. Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S gsimplecal

2. Debian Linux

sudo apt-get install gsimplecal

3. Ubuntu Linux

sudo apt-get install gsimplecal

Building manually

Get the source code via git:

git clone git://github.com/dmedvinsky/gsimplecal.git

Now build it:

cd gsimplecal
./autogen.sh
./configure
make

If you want to use GTK2 instead of GTK3, use ./configure --enable-gtk2.

If everything went well, you now have ./src/gsimplecal binary file. You may put it anywhere you want. Optionally, you can install it the usual way. This way it also puts the man page in the appropriate place:

sudo make install

Dependencies

Runtime

• libc
• libstdc++
• libglib
• libgtk3 / libgtk2

Buildtime

• autotools (autogen, autoconf, automake)
• pkg-config
• libgtk-3-dev / libgtk-2-dev
• C++ compiler (tested only with g++)

Configuration and usage

See man gsimplecal for configuration details.