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Andrey Yankovich
Asked: 2020-04-28 07:52:58 +0800 CST

How to set gnome calendar by default

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I have the GNOME calendar installed and it works fine.

But there is a problem, it is not the default calendar and I can not select it. In the calendars category, only a text editor is available (apparently by mistake).

I am sure that this is a bug, and really look forward to fixing it in Ubuntu. In the meantime, I hope that someone will tell me how to fix this manually.

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default-programs 20.04 gnome-calendar

4 Answers

  1. An even easier solution would be to set the value with gio itself. Thus, set with the command:

    gio mime text/calendar org.gnome.Calendar.desktop

    Then check what you just did with the following command:

    gio mime text/calendar
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  2. Try this

    gedit /home/yourname/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

    paste text/calendar=org.gnome.Calendar.desktop at the end of [default applications] and save.

    by querying gvfs-mime --query text/calendar

    you should get

    Default application for 'text/calendar': org.gnome.Calendar.desktop
Registered applications:
        org.gnome.Calendar.desktop
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  3. What worked for me was:

    Open Terminal:

    locate mimeapps.list

    Find the path starting with home: /home/user_name/.config/mimeapps.list

    Then run the below commands.

    vim /home/user_name/.config/mimeapps.list

    or

    gedit /home/user_name/.config/mimeapps.list

    (both vim and gedit allow you to edit text files)

    paste text/calendar=org.gnome.Calendar.desktop under the last application in the default application list

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    Save the file and run the below command:

    gio mime text/calendar

    Note the following enter image description here

    And lastly check your default applications under the Ubuntu settings: enter image description here

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  4. Best Answer

    This is a bug of gnome. Already fixed in gnome 40 and Ubuntu 21.10.

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