How to Integrate Your Google Account into GNOME Shell

1. How do I enable Gnome Shell?
2. How do I sync my Google calendar with my Gnome calendar?
3. Is Gnome online accounts safe?
4. What is Gnome online accounts?

How do I enable Gnome Shell?

To access GNOME Shell, sign out of your current desktop. From the login screen, click the little button next to your name to reveal the session options. Select the GNOME option in the menu and log in with your password.

How do I sync my Google calendar with my Gnome calendar?

Set up Google Account Calendar sync

1. Go to google calendar:
2. Get to settings , top right of page:
3. In ther click on the Calendars tab , top left of page:
4. In there click on export calendars :
5. That will export your calendar in a . ics file format. Now Lets instruct Calendar to sync back in Ubuntu desktop.

Is Gnome online accounts safe?

Short answer: You can probably trust g-o-a if you use Twitter, Facebook and Google-accounts and you're faced with a login-page that looks native to those services (e.g. a facebook-styleish login box instead of a GNOME-styleish one). Edit: However, always assume your accounts are compromised.

What is Gnome online accounts?

GNOME Online Accounts is a single sign-on framework for GNOME. It aims to provide a way for users to setup online accounts to be used by the core system and core applications only. Calendar entries show up in GNOME Shell, e-mail in Evolution, online storages are exposed as GVolumes, and so on.