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Linux Mint: How to Configure the Clock and Calendar Applet

Linux Mint: How to Configure the Clock and Calendar Applet

December 3, 2020 by Mel Hawthorne 3 Comments

In Linux Mint, the clock and calendar in the bottom-right corner of the screen is an “Applet”. An “Applet” is a small application that displays in the bottom bar. There are a number of applets installed and enabled by default and there are more that can be manually added.

You can configure the clock and calendar applet easily by right-clicking on it in the bottom-right corner, then clicking on “Configure”.

To edit the clock and calendar applet, right-click on the clock in the bottom-right corner, then click “Configure”.

There are three options available for the applet. The first, “Show week numbers in calendar”, changes the calendar so there is a week number on the left.

The bottom option allows you to configure a keyboard shortcut to open the calendar. By default, it is “Super + C”. You can edit the current shortcut by clicking on it and then entering your own keyboard shortcut or you can add a new one by clicking in the “unassigned” box.

Tip: The “Super” key is the name that many Linux distributions use to refer to the Windows key or the Apple “Command” key, while avoiding any risk of trademark issues.

The top option allows you to add a week number to the calendar and the bottom allows you to configure one or two keyboard shortcuts to open the calendar applet.

If you enable the “Use a custom date format” then a new option will appear allowing you complete control over what appears in the minimised applet. To view the full syntax, you should clock on “Show information on date format syntax” which will open a webpage with instructions on how to format the clock to your preferences.

The default syntax is “%A, %B %e, %H:%M” which means: full day name, full month name, day of the month, hour of the day (24 hour), and minute of the hour.

You can configure a custom clock format by enabling “Use a custom date format” then configuring the date syntax to your preference.

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  1. Austin says

    December 26, 2022 at 9:38 pm

    Maybe things are different in your world, but my calendar frequently has fortnightly entries – but Linux Mint Calendar doesn’t allow that?
    How do I reconfigure it, I know I can trawl through the code, and find (say) the weekly code, and rejig it, but is there a method that is persistent through software changes?
    Thanks

  2. Dan Pike says

    November 21, 2021 at 1:56 am

    How do I configure it to use multiple lines? I would like both the date and the time, e.g. with a format string like:

    ‘%H:%M:%S\n%a %b %e

  3. Seena Braunfeld says

    April 28, 2021 at 12:59 am

    I can’t add locations the above configure was done OK

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