Calix

Calix is a desktop calendar for Linux, published by Ian Swope. It shows your days, weeks, and months, and it stores what you put in it on the computer where it is installed. There is no Calix account and no Calix server holding your calendar.

You can keep a calendar that never leaves the machine. You can also connect calendars you already have: Google Calendar, Apple iCloud, Fastmail, Nextcloud, or any other CalDAV server. Calix reads the calendars and events that account can see, shows them beside your local ones, and writes back the changes you make — a new event, a moved event, a reply to an invitation.

Google is the one connection that uses a sign-in screen. Calix uses that sign-in only to keep the calendars you asked it to show in step with your Google account. Apple iCloud, Fastmail, Nextcloud, and other CalDAV servers connect with a password, saved on that computer.

Install

Download the latest Linux release. Extract the archive, open a terminal in that folder, and run:

./install.sh

That installs Calix under ~/.local. Open it from the application menu, or run ~/.local/bin/calix. It needs Linux with GTK 4 and libadwaita. To update, download the newer archive, close Calix, and run ./install.sh again.

Questions: ian@smallswope.com. The notes on this site are a separate thing.