>> > Hi, well, I have been trying everything that you have all suggested, and > I have a few problems. The Lightning 0.9 wont work with this version of > Firefox and Ubuntu 8.10. Doesnt matter how much I've tried it just wont > work. The version in the repositories works, but it wont work with the > google calendar, its showing errors all over the place. I am wondering > if I can find a older version of the google provider, to work with the > older version of Lightning. Also, Caldev? only works with Sunbird, not > lightning, according to the Mozilla people. So, I still havent been able > to work out how to get the calendar working, which is a bit frustrating. > > I hope I have explained that right now. > > John >
Hi John, I've just run a test, and it seems to work. Here is a step-by-step of how I did it, perhaps it will help: 1 - installed thunderbird from repositories (version 2.0.0.19 (20090105)) 2 - installed lightning from mozilla website (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ - version 0.9) restart thunderbird 3 - installed Google calender provider from website (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4631 - version 0.5.1) restart thunderbird 4 - added my calendar from google, using the private ical address under the calendar's settings. click the ical button, right click on the link given and select "copy link location" - then it's easy to paste it into thunderbird 5 - right clicked on calendar in thunderbird, select properties, unticked the read-only option 6 - I then restarted thunderbird and was asked to supply my gmail username and password for write access. I somehow landed up with a duplicate calendar which I deleted, but make sure that the one you keep is the one which is not read-only. I also got a lot of alarms popping up and couldn't get them to go away, I found it was because thunderbird was waiting for a password prompt in the background. I moved the alarms window around the screen, and then entered the password. I could then dismiss the alarms. I can now add or delete events and they appear in my online google calendar. HTH... :-) --Michael _________________________________ Michael Fletcher Visit my website here - http://www.mgfletcher.com/blog Interested in Linux? Then visit - http://www.ilovemylinux.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
