Comments on: Synchronize Mozilla Lightning with Google Calendar

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:22:03 +0000

Google shows how to get non-primary calendars in Lightning.
http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99358#sunbird

By: Mez

Mez — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:02:37 +0000

As said in the very first comment, to get write access, you can download the add-on “Provider for Google Calendar”. It’s been working perfectly fine for me since like 2007.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:34:26 +0000

No. I’m not having any synchronization issues here. If Google is shutting this down, it hasn’t affected my account yet.

By: Valerio

Valerio — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:12:57 +0000

Since yesterday, it seems that Thunderbird+Lightning to a DAV Google Calendar doe not work anymore.

Did you notice as well?

By: Darrell

Darrell — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:33:36 +0000

Thanks man! Perfect.

By: lol

lol — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:25:47 +0000

Checking if pthree.org recognises the best browser in the world and the best OS in the world.

By: dragonbite

dragonbite — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:52:39 +0000

I would love it if there was a wizard or something making it easiser. Choosing Google works great, except for it being read-only (been bitten by that a couple of times).

I’ve used the Private iCal link to get read-write access to all 4 of my calendars for a while now, but with mixed results. Seems the latest version (in Ubuntu 10.04) it works.

Now if only can get the Calendar in Gnome to use Lightning instead of Evolution’s calendar for when you click on the time.

By: Dave Mawdsley

Dave Mawdsley — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:49:19 +0000

Thanks very much for the write-up on using a Google calendar with Lightning. It works just great and solves a synchronization problem with my wife’s calendar.

By: David

David — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:23:20 +0000

I used to be an avid TB user and supporter but found it to be too sluggish and rather “everything including the kitchen sink” so I switched to a far simpler and very fast client instead…ClawsMail. Personally I feel that simpler often is better and speedy rather than sluggish makes me want to use any application rather than feeling forced to put up with it.

By: John

John — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:05:38 +0000

That is a great feature, regrettably it only seems to work on your primary calendar – unless I’m just being particularly dense. To work with other Google calendars you can add the ‘gdata-provider’ extension (provided by the lightening developers); if you add a calendar with a google URL it will ask you for your username and password to allow syncing of the calendar.