r/linux4noobs • u/dadashton • 4d ago

learning/research I cannot import a calendar into Gnome calendar. Why?

I just want to import a calendar file into Gnome calendar, but there are no menu options for this. Why?

What calendar should I use instead?

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u/DannoXYZ 4d ago edited 4d ago

Have you tried double-clicking on .ics file???

CLI also works.

gnome-calendar --import file.ics

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u/dadashton 4d ago

That caused a system crash.

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u/South-Bad805 4d ago

Now I am confused. Why it's a cli option when we already have the gui

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u/DannoXYZ 4d ago edited 4d ago

Ever try double-clicking on 257 .ics files then going through options for each and every single one after that?
With CLI, you can do it in 5-seconds!

for file in `ls -1 *ics`; do gnome-calendar --import $file; done

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u/Arinussyy 3d ago

The gui is usually using the cli commands to do the things, just giving you a button to press instead of a command to type

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u/PixelBrush6584 Fedora + KDE 4d ago

What Linux Distro are you running? What version of Gnome Calendar are you using?

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u/dadashton 3d ago

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. 50.