Connecting Ubuntu / Mint to exchange mail and calendar

Posted on by David Vassallo

Assumptions and pre-requisites. This article assumes the Linux user has the following installed: An Ubuntu derived distribution such as Ubuntu itself, Linux Mint, and so on The email client used is evolution, installed via the following packages and their dependencies: evolution evolution-common evolution-data-server-common evolution-mapi evolution-ews evolution-data-server-goa evolution-plugins gnome-online-accounts gnome-control-center Setup Details Open the system menu … Continue reading Connecting Ubuntu / Mint to exchange mail and calendar

Lessons Learned : Linux System Tray Icons in python

Posted on by David Vassallo

While programming in python, for an Ubuntu/Linux Mint target, you may want to include a system tray icon for batter interaction with users. In Ubuntu, these are called "application indicators". A basic appindicator icon is quite simple to do in python via PyGTK. There's a very good example here: http://developer.ubuntu.com/resources/technologies/application-indicators/ Scroll down to the PyGTK … Continue reading Lessons Learned : Linux System Tray Icons in python