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Logitech MX KEYS S Screenshot-Funktion in Linux Mint

Teaching the Logitech MX KEYS S keyboard to take screenshots in Linux Mint

Posted on Sunday August 24th, 2025

How do I teach the Logitech MX KEY S keyboard under Linux (Mint) to take a screenshots when the Snipping Tool key is pressed?

German Posts, English Posts, GNU/Linux, How Tos, Linux Mint

Scilab 6.1.1/2023.0.0 Installation on Ubuntu 22.04

Posted on Friday June 17th, 2022

Those who want to use the math software Scilab on Ubuntu or its derivatives fail when installing Scilab via package management. It does not work as expected. This how-to describes how to install Scilab system-wide on Ubuntu Linux.

German Posts, English Posts, GNU/Linux, How Tos, Linux Mint, Scilab, Ubuntu

PP3 – Star Charts for Ubuntu

Posted on Sunday February 7th, 2021

PP3 is THE program to produce printable star charts in TeX, EPS or PDF format for LaTeX or word processors, even if it is not […]

Astronomy, German Posts, English Posts, GNU/Linux, Linux Mint, Software, Ubuntu

Install DISLIN 11.3 on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa

Posted on Monday October 26th, 2020

DISLIN is a very nice and well-documented 2-D and 3-D plotting framework for Fortran and some other programming languages. Furthermore DISLIN provides some widgets to […]

English Posts, Fortran, GNU/Linux, How Tos, Programming, Ubuntu

swing-menu-corr updated to Linux Mint 20

Posted on Sunday October 11th, 2020

A quarter of a year after the introduction of Linux Mint 20 I finally managed to adapt my Java Swing correction script swing-menu-corr to version […]

GNU/Linux, Java, Linux Mint

LibreOffice – Search and Replace extented

Posted on Monday February 5th, 2018

To replace a simple carriage return with a paragraph end mark Microsoft Word® offers a solution out-of-the-box. LibreOffice does not provide any functionality for this […]

German Posts, English Posts, GNU/Linux, News, macOS, Office, Windows

Install DISLIN 10.6 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus

Posted on Saturday June 4th, 2016

For the new Ubuntu 20.04-LTS-version Focal Fossa and Dislin 11.3 refer the new article Install DISLIN 11.3 on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa DISLIN is a […]

English Posts, Fortran, GNU/Linux, How Tos, Programming, Ubuntu

Other spell-checking language in MdCharm

Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2015

To add another language in the spell checker of the markdown editor MdCharm in Windows or GNU/Linux, download the desired dictionary (*.oxt) of OpenOffice. Unzip […]

German Posts, English Posts, GNU/Linux, News, Linux Mint, Programming, Ubuntu, Windows