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Str82DHeaD

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Devuan 5 Daedalus - Evolution CalDav integration

Hello! I've had enough of systemd. I've installed devuan and migrated all my stuff. Everything is working great so far. However in the old distro I've used evolution and more importand it's integration in the panel's calendar. I have nextcloud server that syncs my calendars. However I can't manage to find how to integrate the current "panel clock" to use evolution ?
Evolution itself is working/syncing. But I need panel applet to it.
Any suggestions?

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Re: Devuan 5 Daedalus - Evolution CalDav integration

Not sure how to help here, can you give a little more detail? Which DE are you running?

In Openbox using tint2 for the panel, you can alter the command for what happens when you right-click it. I use mine to run tz-data.

In Mate that's not possible without a lot of re-coding I think.

You can always make a simple custom launcher and drop it in the panel to launch just about any app, but that won't integrate with the onboard calendar.

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Str82DHeaD

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Re: Devuan 5 Daedalus - Evolution CalDav integration

yep... I use mate. Given that I am planning on moving 20+ users to devuan... I have to make it work with mate.
However I found that
/usr/libexec/ayatana-indicator-datetime/ayatana-indicator-datetime-service
kinda works. It syncs/displays appointments, you can edit them. However given that it depends on .service to run the ntpdate - it displays two hours back. I am digging on how to go around that.

Last edited by Str82DHeaD (2025-03-25 09:22:24)

Str82DHeaD

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Re: Devuan 5 Daedalus - Evolution CalDav integration

up?

delgado

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Re: Devuan 5 Daedalus - Evolution CalDav integration

I can't manage to find how to integrate the current "panel clock" to use evolution

Assuming mate panel works similar to lxde ... .
Did you compare the "panel applet" configuration on both install? (GUI and config file)
Is the panel using a different plugin for the "panel clock"?

it displays two hours back

BIOS (or efi): Set time to UTC, not local time.
(Some flavour of) ntp should run in any case. If the time difference is too big, ntp might not want to sync.
Check insatllation's time zone settings: /etc/adjtime /etc/localtime /etc/timezone. Last line in /etc/adjtime should be "UTC".
E.g.:

$ cat /etc/adjtime
0.000000 1743786960 0.000000
1743786960
UTC

$ ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35  Mon 2024-07-01 19:25  /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich

$ cat /etc/timezone
Europe/Zurich

https://wiki.debian.org/DateTime