|
Welcome to the products page for Frigcal, a calendar that's personal, private,
and portable.
Frigcal is a GUI program coded in Python/Tk, which stores your calendar
entries in portable ICS files that work across platforms and programs. With Frigcal,
your calendar data is your business, not something to be scanned and monetized
by nosy companies.
For a quick tour of Frigcal's features, see its
User Guide's
Introducing Frigcal,
its PC
screenshots,
and its Android
how-to.
New:
Frigcal's source-code package below (only) was updated in May-2022, to
patch
an import statement in the embedded pytz library broken by a
change in Python 3.10. The fix is crucial on Android, which runs only source code.
|
Frigcal runs on macOS (f.k.a. Mac OS X), Windows, Linux, and Android. It's available
as a platform-specific macOS app, Windows exe (both 64- and 32-bit),
and Linux executable, plus a complete source-code package
that runs on all four platforms.
Click the download link below to fetch the package you wish to use.
The app, exes, and executable may be easier to install and
run, but source code can be studied, is required on Android
today, and nullifies issues covered by the next section's
pointers.
For more details on Frigcal's download packages, as well as their complete install and
usage instructions, see the main
README.txt.
In brief, you'll fetch, unzip, and run either the unzipped app itself (macOS),
a same-named executable inside the unzip (Windows and Linux), or the program's
main script in the unzipped source code (all platforms).
The latest getting-started pointers:
- macOS users
-
See the tips and fixes for your platform's
first-run warnings,
and
app-folder permissions.
Both of these apply only to the macOS app, not source code.
The
readme
covers Launchpad on your platform.
Mojave users: see also this
to fix crashes and blank windows caused by macOS dark mode.
Apple M-chip users: the Rosetta 2 emulator is required to run the app package,
but not source code.
Update: per 2023 vetting on macOS Ventura, launching the 2017 app package directly
no longer works, because its splashscreen cannot open the main program; launch instead
by opening the app package's main program at Contents/MacOS/frigcal
within the unzipped Frigcal.app.
The source-code package still works in full, but
a newer Tk used by newer Pythons may cause text-color issues in dark mode
(e.g., white on light); work around this by config-file color changes, or disabling
dark mode—either globally, or for Python with commands
here.
- Windows users
-
See the tips and fixes for your platform's
first-run warnings,
executable start-up speed,
and
blurry text on Windows 10+.
The first two of these apply only to Windows executables, not source code.
Update: as of 2023, this program's app and source-code have now been vetted to work well
on Windows 11, in addition to 7, 8, and 10.
- Linux users
-
You can add Frigcal to your applications launcher by fetching
this file
and installing it per steps 1..4 in
this tip.
See also
this tip
for a possibly useful library fix for the executable.
Update: per this note
in 2020, Frigcal's Linux executable was broken by recent Linux changes;
please use the source-code package instead.
-
Android users
-
See this doc
for details on running Frigcal on your platform. In short, you'll fetch and
patch its source-code package, and launch it in an app's IDE.
Android 11+ users: see also this
for recent changes on Android; most don't impact Frigcal directly (until the next note).
Update: in 2023, Pydroid 3's version 6 imposed extra steps for
running this program on Android; see the coverage
here and
here.
In short, you must unzip and run in a specific accessible
folder, and sync or copy your calendar files to the same.
-
For a preview of Frigcal in action, visit its
screenshots page.
-
For information on using Frigcal, explore its
User Guide.
-
For highlights of Frigcal's releases, view its
recent changes.
-
For Frigcal's full source code online, browse its
unzipped code.
-
For more tips and updates, see the support
page
and older
list.
![[Home page]](PythonPowered.gif "Home page"){kind=small}