Configuration
To change 's look and behavior, choose the Settings Configure ... menu item. You can get more information about all the configure options and possibilities in Main Configuration.
To customize the set of tools available on the bar, choose the Settings Configure Toolbars... menu item and read the Section Customizing Toolbars in the Fundamentals.
Localization information like date and time formats can be configured from within the modules Language, and Formats. These control modules can be accessed from within : just choose the Settings Configure Date & Time... menu item. has to be restarted for changes done in to take effect.
To configure where stores and retrieves calendar events, journal entries and to-dos, (in local files, groupware servers ), please check Calendar Resources.

Main Configuration
The options dialog lets you configure a number of different areas of .

General page

Personal tab
The personal options relate to your personal identity, and other miscellaneous things that do not fall under any of the other general categories.
Full name 	Full name is initially set to Anonymous with an email address of nobody@nowhere. You can change your name by directly entering it here. This name will be displayed by default as Organizer in to-dos and Events.
Email address 	Email address will be used to identify the owner of the calendar. When another person opens your calendar or events, he/she will not be able to modify it because it will be read-only.
Default Email Attachment Method 	This option allows you to select the way an email is attached to an event. You can attach an email as the complete email including attachments, the email excluding attachments or only a link to the email.
Note that attaching an email without attachments might invalidate its signature.

Save tab
Confirm deletes 	When you check Confirm deletes box, will ask you to confirm each deletion. If this is not checked, will not ask before deleting events.
New Events, To-dos and Journal Entries Should 	This option lets you choose between adding new items to the default calendar or making ask you which calendar should be used to save each new item.
Kolab2 server specificity: It is recommended to choose Be asked which calendar to use, if you intend to use the shared folder functionality of the Kolab server. This will allow you to keep control of which information is available only to you, and which information is published in the shared folders.

Time and Date

Regional tab
Day begins at 	Select the time you start your day from the drop down list. It could be the time when you usually get up, or the time when you start working. This setting does not prevent you from adding or viewing items before this time, it just sets the time that will be displayed by default on the top of the calendar view. Use the scrollbar to display earlier or later events in the Agenda view.
Holidays 	Select your country from the drop down list, or if it is not listed, select (None). If your country is selected, will recognize and display its important dates and holidays in the calendar view.
Working Period 	The options Daily starting hour and Daily ending hour let you specify when your working day starts and when it ends. sets the working hours apart by marking them with a different color from the non working hours, holidays and non working days.
Additionally, you have check boxes beside each day of the week. Check the week days that are working days for you, in order to mark the working hours in these days. Checking Exclude holidays prevents from marking the working hours for the holiday days in the region defined in the Use holiday region drop down above.
Weekly Start Day 	Select the first day of each week. Normally, you can ignore this since it is set in your locale.

Default Values tab
Default appointment time 	Select the default start time for events from the drop down list. When you choose New Event from the Actions Menu, or create an event in some other manner such that cannot guess when you would like your event to start, will put this hour in the start time editor as the default value.
Default duration of new appointment (HH:MM): 	Select the default duration for events using the spin box. When you choose New Event from the Actions Menu, or create an event in some other manner such that cannot guess its duration, will use this as the default value.
Reminders 	 Select a Default reminder time to determine how long before the actual event's scheduled time the reminder will activate.
Set a file to be used as the default sound file for new reminders. You can always specify another file in the Advanced Reminder accessible from the event or to-do editors.
Check the next two boxes if you want to enable reminders for all newly created events or to-dos. You can always turn-off the reminders in the editor dialogs.

Views
These options let you configure views:

General tab
Next x days: 	This option allows you to change the number of days shown by the Next x Days menu item in the Go menu.
Enable tooltips for displaying summaries 	If your summary for an event is longer than would fit in the current View, the remaining characters are not displayed. Check Enable tooltips for displaying summaries if you want the full summary displayed when hovering the mouse pointer over the appointment for a few seconds.
To-dos use tag colors 	Check this box so that to-dos will use tag colors and not colors specific to their due, due today or overdue state.
Date Navigator options:
Show items that recur daily 	If the Show items that recur daily box is checked, the days containing daily recurring events are shown in bold typeface in the Date Navigator.
Show items that recur weekly 	If the Show items that recur weekly box is checked, the days containing weekly recurring events are shown in bold typeface in the Date Navigator.
Show to-dos instead of events when in Todo View 	Check this box to show the days containing to-dos in bold typeface in the Date Navigator when in To-do view.
Show journals instead of events when in Journal View 	Check this box to show the days containing journals in bold typeface in the Date Navigator when in Journal view.
Week numbers select a work week when in work week mode 	If the Week numbers select a work week when in work week mode box is checked, clicking on the week numbers along the side of the Date Navigator will navigate through work weeks rather than through normal 7-day weeks.

Agenda View tab
Agenda View options:
Hour size: 	By using this you can control the height of the rows in the Agenda view.
Show icons in agenda view items 	Check this box to display icons (reminder, recursion ) in Agenda view items
Show to-dos 	This check box toggles the display of to-dos in the Day, Week and Month views in the Agenda view. If you have too many to-dos which have a due date associated, you may want to turn them off to avoid clutter.
Show current-time (Marcus Bains) line 	This check box toggles on or off a red line in the Day or Week view indicating the current time (Marcus Bains line). This line gives you an indication of how much time is left ⪚ until a meeting takes place.
Show seconds on current-time (Marcus Bains) line 	This check box toggles on or off the seconds on the current-time line (Marcus Bains line).
Time range selection in agenda view starts event editor 	Check this box to start the event editor automatically when you select a time range in the daily and weekly view. To select a time range, drag the mouse from the start time to the end time of the event you are about to plan.
Color Usage 	 Select the Tag inside, calendar outside option if you would like to draw calendar items in their associated tag's color, with the item's border drawn in the color of its calendar.
Select the Calendar inside, tag outside option if you would like to draw calendar items in their associated calendar color, with the item's border drawn in the color of its tag.
Select the Only tag option if you would like to draw calendar items (both inside and border) in the color of their associated tag.
Select the Only calendar option if you would like to draw calendar items (both inside and border) in the color of their calendar.
Please use the Colors and Fonts configuration page for setting these colors.
Color busy days with a different background color 	Check this box if you want Agenda view's background to be filled with a different color on days which have at least one all day event marked as busy.
Please look in the Colors configuration area to select the Agenda view background busy color of your choosing.
Multiple Calendar Display 	 Select if all calendars should be merged into one Agenda view, each calendar should be displayed in its own Agenda view or if each view should be available via tabs. The side by side view can be customized with Configure View from the context menu.

Month View tab
Month view options:
Display Options 	Use the first four check boxes to display the time, icons (reminder, recursion ), to-dos or journals in Month view.
Color busy days with a different background color 	Check this box if you want Month view's background to be filled with a different color on days which have at least one all day event marked as busy.
Please look in the Colors configuration area to select the Agenda/Month view background busy color of your choosing.
Color Usage 	 Configure the colors for the Month view as in Agenda view.

Todo View tab
Todo view options:
Always display completed to-dos at the bottom of the list 	If you enable this option, all completed to-dos will be always grouped at the bottom of the To-do List.
Record completed to-dos in journal entries 	If you check this box, will automatically add a journal entry for every completed to-do.

Colors and Fonts

Colors
Choose the color used for holidays, for highlighting, and for specific event tags. You can choose a different color for each tag. Of course too many colors may be confusing, so use common sense. The use of color depends also on the view preferences.
Holiday color 	This button opens the Select Color dialog, allowing you to select the holiday color. The holiday color will be used for the holiday name in the Month view and the holiday date in the Date Navigator.
Agenda view background color 	This button opens the Select Color dialog, allowing you to select the Agenda view background color.
Busy days background color 	This button opens the Select Color dialog, allowing you to select the Agenda or Month view background busy color. This color is only used when the option for drawing busy days with a different color is set in either of these views.
Agenda view current-time line color 	This button opens the Select Color dialog, allowing you to select a color for the current-time (Marcus Bains) line.
Working hours color 	This button opens the Select Color dialog, allowing you to select the color of the working hours background in the Agenda view.
To-do due today color 	This button opens the Select Color dialog, allowing you to select the to-do due today color.
To-do overdue color 	This button opens the Select Color dialog, allowing you to select the to-do overdue color.
Tags 	This group allows you to assign a color to each tag. Select a tag in the drop down list, and press the button to open the Select Color dialog, allowing you to select the color for that tag. Depending on the view preferences, this color will be used to mark events and to-dos which bear this tag in the Agenda and Month views.
Resources 	This group allows you to assign a color to each resource. Select a resource in the drop down list, and press the button to open the Select Color dialog, allowing you to select the color for that resource. Depending on the view preferences, this color will be used to mark events and to-dos which are stored using this resource in the Agenda and Month views.

Fonts tab
Time bar 	Press this button to pick the font, font style and size for the time bar.
Month view 	Press this button to pick the font, font style and size for the Month view.
Agenda view 	Press this button to pick the font, font style and size for the Agenda view (Day, Week and Work Week views).
Current-time line 	Press this button to pick the font, font style and size for the Marcus Bains line (a colored line in the Agenda view indicating the current time).

Group Scheduling
Use Groupware Communication 	Check this box to automatically send emails when creating, updating or deleting events or to-dos which involve others. This email can be an invitation to attendees of an event you created, a cancellation of an event you created, an answer or an update on your invitation status, an event change request, Check this option if you want to use the groupware functionality (⪚ Configuring as a Kolab client).
Send copy to owner when mailing events 	When you check the Send copy to owner when mailing events box, you will get a copy of all email messages that sends at your request to the event attendees.
Mail transport 	Here you can choose which type of mail transport you would like to use. You can either use or the command (which must be installed on your system in order to work).

Free/Busy
The free/busy information represents an availability schedule. By presenting the intervals when one already has previous commitments, others can avoid arranging appointments for these periods. Note that only the times are published, not the events, reasons or attendees.
supports publishing and retrieving free/busy information, either manually or automatically.

Publish
By publishing your free/busy information, you allow others to take your busy time schedule into account when inviting you to an event.
Publish free/busy information automatically 	Enable this option if you wish your Free/Busy information to be uploaded automatically. Note that you may skip this option and choose to mail or upload your Free/Busy information via the Schedule menu of .
If your application is setup to work as a Kolab client, this is not required. The Kolab2 server can take care of publishing your Free/Busy information and manage the access to it from other users.
Minimum time between uploads (in minutes) 	If you choose to publish your information automatically, you can configure the interval of time in minutes between each upload.
Publish (default 60) days of free/busy information 	Configure the number of calendar days you wish to be published and available to others
Server 	Enter the for the server on which your Free/Busy information will be published. Ask the server administrator for this information.
Kolab2 server example: webdavs://kolab2.com/freebusy/joe@kolab2.com.ifb
Username 	Enter the login information relative to your account on the server
Kolab2 server specificity: your registered UID (Unique IDentifier), by default, would be similar to your email address on the Kolab2 server but it may be different. In this case enter your UID. Ask the server administrator about your UID if you do not know it.
Password 	Enter your password (server login password) here.
Remember password 	Check this option if you want to remember your password and skip asking you each time it uploads your Free/Busy information.
It is not recommended to store your password in the configuration file for security reasons.

Retrieve
By retrieving other people's free/busy information, you can take their busy time schedule into account when inviting them to an event.
Retrieve other people's free/busy information automatically 	Automate the process for retrieving other users free/busy time. Fill in the server information section below to enable this option.
Use full email address for retrieval 	This setting lets you change the name of the file which will be fetched from the server. If you check this option, it will download a free/busy file called user@domain.ifb, else it will fetch user.ifb. Ask the server administrator if you are not sure about how to configure this option.
Kolab2 server specificity: If you are configuring as a component to a Kolab client (/Kolab) you have to check this option.
Server 	Enter the for the server from which your Free/Busy information will be fetched. Ask the server administrator for this information.
Kolab2 server example: webdavs://kolab2.com/freebusy/
Username 	Enter the login information relative to your account on the server.
Password 	Enter your password (server login password) here.
Remember password 	Check this option if you want to remember your password and skip asking you each time it fetches the free/busy files.
It is not recommended to store your password in the configuration file for security reasons.

Plugins
For more information about configuring plugins, please refer to Plugins

Custom Pages
This page allows you to add your own Elements to store your own values into .
Create your elements as described in How does this work?