Can someone recommend a calendar program?

[Tyrannocaster]

I need a calendar/alarm program that will display an alert and I'm having trouble finding one that will allow me to set events up that repeat every two weeks (rather than on a specific date). I also need to have a couple of events on the 1st and 3rd of each month, but it seems like all of the calendars will do that, so the hangup is the biweekly reminder.

I don't want to mess with cron - I used to do that back in the days of the Amiga but I have no desire to go back to that, LOL.

[bitsnpcs]

There is a Thunderbird Add-on named Lightning that is a calendar.

Here is the link for the tutorial of how to set bi weekly events to Lightning -

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cre...ring-event

This is about configuring it and also set Alarms

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/con...-lightning

The search at the top of the link page will find other tutorials for Lightning.

[Tyrannocaster]

Thanks for that. I'll look at it - I knew Thunderbird had a calendar, but I didn't realize it could do alarms. It must have some sort of daemon, unless you have to have Thunderbird running all the time for the calendar to run.

EDIT - it looks like that will do what I want. I had already decided to use Thunderbird for email on this computer, so I'm quite pleased with this.

[bitsnpcs]

You are Welcome [member=8136]Tyrannocaster[/member] 

I use Thunderbird for email too.

[Moltke]

I use this alarm-clock-applet http://alarm-clock.pseudoberries.com/ which sits on the panel and is really usefull and does what I want. I know you asked for a calendar but it seems to me that you meant an alarm clock/system too.
You can install it via apt-get

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install alarm-clock-applet

then, right click on the panel, select panel > add new items and add the applet. Set your custom alarms and that's it. It has a timer which I think can manage what you want to do; biweekly alarms.
Hope this helps!

[Searchernow]

Glad you've found some options. For the future you might want to look at Evolution, which is in LL Synaptic package manager. It's similar to Tbird, but seems more developed and to my eyes has a better look.

I use it for Email, preferring it to Tbird as the Evolution File>Backup Evolution Data works very quickly to back up all my emails, which I find a lot easier than Local Folders in Tbird. I must admit I haven't had to Restore from that file yet, but I expect it would allow me to restore to a new installation - I'll find out when I upgrade to LL 4.x!

To get to the point - Evolution has a calendar, which I admit I don't use, but testing it just now it does create recurring appointments and has Pop-Up Alerts options. Not sure if that's quite what you meant.

[Tyrannocaster]

it sounds like Evolution would be fine, except that I have three different operating systems and I chose Thunderbird partly because I could export its messages to the others if a I had Thunderbird on them. I got trapped because I used Opera for mail for about 15 years on the Mac (and I still like it) but you can not export the emails, even though supposedly you can. And even if you do, you end up with something unusable; it's a nightmare from a compatibility standpoint.

Can you export Evolution's emails so that Thunderbird can read them?

[Tyrannocaster]

I use this alarm-clock-applet http://alarm-clock.pseudoberries.com/ which sits on the panel and is really usefull and does what I want. I know you asked for a calendar but it seems to me that you meant an alarm clock/system too.
You can install it via apt-get

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install alarm-clock-applet

then, right click on the panel, select panel > add new items and add the applet. Set your custom alarms and that's it. It has a timer which I think can manage what you want to do; biweekly alarms.
Hope this helps!

Hey, thanks for that. That is a good option, although I have too much stuff in my panel (I still am not used to calling the menu the panel) now. But I am finding that using the Thunderbird calendar seems to work well for me because I check my emails several times a day so I see any alarms/events there. I was used to having an image pop up at specific times to tell me things (this was on my Mac) but this new way seems to work just as well for me.

[Searchernow]

it sounds like Evolution would be fine, except that I have three different operating systems and I chose Thunderbird partly because I could export its messages to the others if a I had Thunderbird on them. I got trapped because I used Opera for mail for about 15 years on the Mac (and I still like it) but you can not export the emails, even though supposedly you can. And even if you do, you end up with something unusable; it's a nightmare from a compatibility standpoint.

Can you export Evolution's emails so that Thunderbird can read them?

Yes, I agree, if you're using other OSs then Tbird is best, even just to have the same interface.

Evolution is just for Linux.
Anyway, having looked up its Help, here is what it says:

"Exporting mail data
To save an email to a file in mbox format, select an email and click File ▸ Save as mbox… or right-click on the message and click Save as mbox….
The same steps apply to save a complete mail folder, but you have to mark all messages in it first.
You can select all messages in a folder by clicking Edit ▸ Select All or pressing Ctrl+A."
(there's a wikipedia entry for Mbox).

I don't know if Tbird can read Mbox format, but I opened Tbird on this LL and tried to import data: Tools>import>import everything, but it did not recognize Evolution (which is running) and stated no (email) application found.

Stick with Tbird.