@wfsaxton Pretty sure MM will do what you describe. What limitations are do you see with MM? Calendars not my cup of tea but I’ve seen some pretty awesome calendar setups using MM.
There are several Calendar modules in the 3rd Party module section and some are better than others.
It can be a challenge picking the right 3rd Party module, whether calendar or not because they are made by different individuals and in that group of module builders some do better at maintaining their modules than others.

Several years ago a stumbled across this commercial product, DAKBOARD, which is a paid subscription based service similar to MM. I rapidly got frustrated with DAKBoard because for a paid service their customer service STANK.

Magic Mirror doesn’t have customer service per se but they have a ton of folks who can usually answer questions or suggest alternatives.

I took a crack at MM and have not regretted that decision in the slightest.

Just my opinion but looking at DAK Board and MM I doubt you will find many/any takers because when you look at the number of available modules and the hours put in to create a module, that is a vast amount coding hours

@sdetweil This is in regards to auto-starting MM.
When installing NPM per the documentation, do you install at ~$ or at/MagicMirror $
It isn’t real clear because half way through that sequence it has cd ~ which you could take to mean you are installing npm at the MagicMirror level then you back up to put the auto start script at root?

I kinda-sorta think I understand what is going on with this ALT problem but I’m out of gas and will confirm in the morning.

@sdetweil Hitting ALT always worked in the past and continues to work on the older MM. I don’t pull these things out of thin air. I get your point about documentation though.
You mentioned early in this conversation about that being something that is done in Electron. Electron is way beyond my knowledge level. But searching Google it seems that somewhere in Electron there is titleBarStyle and it is currently set to hidden . I haven’t a clue as to how to run that to ground but almost like someone was messing with the code trying to make a kiosk but didn’t do that locally.

@sdetweil This is why ALT

In any case neither ALT, ALT+Spacebar or CTL+m allow me to easily move back and forth between configuring and checking the Magic Mirror.

This is all being done on Pi4B’s BTW.
I have formatted the sd card on the original Pi4B now 4 times and installed MM 4 times right behing the Pi OS fresh install. 64 bit

After you made mention of 32 bit I took a second Pi 4B, installed 32 bit Pi OS and then right behind I installed MM

The existing, functioning MM is fine. I hit ALT and it does just what the attached picture says it should do.

So I have two Pi 4B’s, one of which is running 32 bit Pi OS and one running 64 bit Pi OS.
Neither will let me get access to the toolbar in any combination of keystrokes.

@sdetweil is the aarch64 what is telling you 64 bit?

I am about 95% sure that the other MM I referenced having built a couple of years ago is 64 bit also.
ALT on that MM brings up the toolbar as expected.
BUT…when I do ALT+Spacebar it does not give the same result.
The way I’m reading your comments ALT and ALT+Spacebar should give the same result, or did in the past.

Not being a programmer many of these commands I am unaware of.

@sdetweil
~ $ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Release: 11
Codename: bullseye

~ $ uname -a
Linux PiPics 6.1.21-v8+ #1642 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 3 17:24:16 BST 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux

My installation process amounts to formating micro-sd card, firing up Raspberry Pi’s installer, install their posted software.
Immediately do apt update, apt full-upgrade then head to the MM link to your Github based installer. Copy your script, hit enter.
When asked about screensaver & pm2 I answer yes to both.

Regarding yesterdays change of subject question, my concern was if somehow a virus was loading itself on my Pi.

I kind of think I know what the problem is but it seems like an install problem because 1) it is repeatable and 2) it is like this straight from the install.

I don’t know the official name for the “bar” but it is missing.
This is from am MM I built a couple of years ago.

Non-existent in this most recent install. I saw it missing yesterday. That missing bar was what prompted my question.
I’ve installed via @sdetweil script

@sdetweil Quick change of subject. How do I find a list of installed packages on Pi WITH timestamp
Something unannounced just installed itself on this Pi
Not a fan of surprise unannounced installations out of the blue on my computers

@sdetweil Bad news…FWIW ALT-spacebar does nothing and CTL + M kills it.

@swvalenti @sdetweil Thanks. “Hey there sexy!” was getting old.