Command line option to open calendar
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(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)
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(Reporter: bugzilla, Unassigned)
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(Keywords: ux-efficiency)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0
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May we please have a Linux command line option to open a new window with just the calendar?
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Comment 1•4 years ago
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Thanks Alistair, that sounds like a good idea!
Can you elaborate on your use case a bit?
Rob, would you know how hard it would be to add such a command line option?
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Comment 2•4 years ago
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I use the Unity desktop environment on Ubuntu because it supports a two-dimensional grid of virtual workspaces. I like to have my email in one workspace, and my calendar in another. At present I do this by pressing <windows key>-E (which is one of my custom key bindings) to open Thunderbird, then Menu -> Events and tasks -> Calendar to open the calendar tab, then right click on the calendar tab and select "Move to New Window", then Ctrl-Alt-Left arrow to move the calendar tab to another workspace. It would be nice to be able to bind <windows key>-C to something like "thunderbird --calendar" so I can just load the calendar with a single key combination.
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Comment 3•4 years ago
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It would also be nice if this opened just the calendar tab, not the inbox tab as well.
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Comment 4•4 years ago
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(In reply to Thomas D. (:thomas8) from comment #1)
Rob, would you know how hard it would be to add such a command line option?
Not my area of expertise, but considering that -addressbook, -compose, and -mail all exist I would think that adding -calendar would not be too hard.
(In reply to Alistair Cunningham from comment #3)
It would also be nice if this opened just the calendar tab, not the inbox tab as well.
AIUI, this is not currently possible, though work is being done to change that. Maybe in Thunderbird 113.
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Updated•3 years ago
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Comment 6•3 years ago
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I've just tested this after upgrading to 102.3.1. Running "thunderbird -calendar" on the command line when an instance of thunderbird is already running loads the calendar, but in the existing window, rather than a new window as requested. Is there any way to open the calendar in a new window?
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