How to disable gnome calendar integration with google

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I want to remove Google calendar tasks from Gnome calendar. I never really configured Gnome to show Google tasks but I think Evolution automatically integrated them.

I did find some instructions on how to enable this integration, but they teach how to do it using Gnome's "online accounts" settings. I have no online account configured in my Gnome settings.

There are a few options on Evolution's account settings related to the calendar but they did not remove tasks from Gnome calendar.

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Got the same problem for a while, I just went into evolution client, and deleted the google account from Preferences>accounts that solved it, the google authentication has not appeared so far, try it out.

I guess evolution will automatically integrate with gnome calendar, kind of sucks tho, it would be nice to opt-In, I don't really use calendars and when I stopped using evolution completely forgot thats when gnome started prompting for google calendar access. Your question helped me remember that, so thank you.

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Thunderbird+Lightning is a great choice of calendar application, but these will allow you to view and use the calendar, not sync it.

I would suggest these two sync options which are independent of Google :

Run a self-hosted Radicale CalDav server. It's faily simple to set-up and Debian packages are available.
Use the SyncKolab Thunderbird extension, which can sync your calendar across a shared IMAP email account.

How to tell what program is asking for a password

You can use xprop, available in the xorg-xprop package.

Just run xprop and select the password prompt window. As an example, xprop outputs the following information for my terminal emulator.

WM_STATE(WM_STATE):
        window state: Normal
        icon window: 0x0
WM_LOCALE_NAME(STRING) = "en_US.UTF-8"
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "screen-256color", "screen-256color"
WM_HINTS(WM_HINTS):
        Client accepts input or input focus: True
WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS):
        program specified size: 564 by 340
        program specified resize increment: 7 by 14
        program specified base size: 4 by 4
WM_CLIENT_MACHINE(STRING) = "paradark"
WM_NAME(STRING) = "st"
WM_PROTOCOLS(ATOM): protocols  WM_DELETE_WINDOW

The WM_NAME field may be especially useful in your case.

xprop will not work if you are unable to select the window. You can use xwininfo instead. xwininfo is available in the xorg-xwininfo package. Here is an example of its usage:

$ xwininfo -display :0 -tree -root
xwininfo: Window id: 0x286 (the root window) "LG3D"

  Root window id: 0x286 (the root window) "LG3D"
  Parent window id: 0x0 (none)
     21 children:
     ...
     0x1a00001 "st": ("screen-256color" "screen-256color")  862x532+1056+546  +1056+546
     0x1600001 "st": ("screen-256color" "screen-256color")  1054x1065+-2112+13  +-2112+13
     0x600001 "st": ("screen-256color" "screen-256color")  862x532+-1728+546  +-1728+546
     0x400004 (has no name): ()  1x1+0+0  +0+0

If you need additional information about the window, use xprop with the window's ID.

$ xprop -display :0 -id 0x600001
WM_STATE(WM_STATE):
        window state: Normal
        icon window: 0x0
WM_LOCALE_NAME(STRING) = "en_US.UTF-8"
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "screen-256color", "screen-256color"
WM_HINTS(WM_HINTS):
        Client accepts input or input focus: True
WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS):
        program specified size: 564 by 340
        program specified resize increment: 7 by 14
        program specified base size: 4 by 4
WM_CLIENT_MACHINE(STRING) = "paradark"
WM_NAME(UTF8_STRING) = "st"
WM_PROTOCOLS(ATOM): protocols  WM_DELETE_WINDOW

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