Cinnamon Calendar Applet

The Cinnamon Calenader Applet is the default calendar app, in the system tray in Linux Mint.

Configuration repositories

I'm not sure where configurations are actually stored:

• ~/.config/dconf/user - dconf database ← Doesn't seem to have anything to do with this.
• ~/.cinnamon/configs/calendar@cinnamon.org/<UUID>.json
• ~/.config/cinnamon/spices/calendar@cinnamon.org/13.json ← Seems the case for Linux Mint 22 (2024.08).

dconf configuration tools

There seem to me several tools to change dconf settings, but I doubt if these have anything to do with configuring the Cinnamon Calendar Applet:

• dconf - No results
• gsettings - No results
• dconf-editor - Not tried yet.

Change date & time format

I prefer this date & time format: Wk %V - %A, %B %e, %H:%M:%S. How to change that?

• dconf and gsettings don't seem to be suitabe for this
• ~/.cinnamon/configs/calendar@cinnamon.org? This file doesn't exist yet on the new computer, and I don't feel like experimenting with this now.

→ Do it manually.

Case: Change date & time format manually - 2024.08

Actions

• dconf & gsettings didn't seem to have relevant settings
• ~/.cinnamon/configs/calendar@cinnamon.org didn't exist
• Changed manually (right-click on the app in the system tray)

Evaluation

Subsequently, it seems that the information was stored at ~/.config/cinnamon/spices/calendar@cinnamon.org/13.json. What this seems to imply:

• The path has changed from ~/.cinnamon/... to ~/.config/cinnamon/...
• As mentioned above, a JSON file with a random name is generated to store these settings
• I couldn't find back the changes using gsettings, so maybe the dconf database has nothing to do with this.

See also

• dconf
• gsettings