Dcal Upcoming Event

A Dank Material Shell plugin that shows your next calendar event from dcal with a live countdown timer.

Features

• Displays your next upcoming event name and countdown in the dank bar
• Countdown format: XdYhZm, skipping zero sections (e.g. 2h15m, 1d3m)
• Shows Now (in green) for the first 10 minutes of a running event
• Shows <1m for events less than a minute away
• Click the widget to toggle the dcal UI

Settings

Setting	Description	Range	Default
Refresh Interval	How often to fetch events (seconds)	10 - 120	30
Max Width	Maximum width of the event name (pixels)	80 - 300	160
Look-Ahead	How far ahead to look for events (days)	1 - 7	1

Dependencies

• dcal
• jq

Installation

Install from the DMS plugin browser, or manually:

git clone https://github.com/leoamaro01/dms-dcal ~/.config/DankMaterialShell/plugins/dcalUpcoming

Then reload plugins from DMS settings or restart the shell.

License

MIT