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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 on macOS Ventura without version warning

Posted on Sunday January 15th, 2023

Scilab 6.1.1 for Mac currently – January 2023 – runs on macOS High Sierra to Monterey. However, except for one small limitation, Scilab 6.1.1 also works on macOS Ventura. This how-to shows how to suppress the annoying version warning, too.

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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.

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Fortran IDE for macOS

Posted on Sunday April 17th, 2022

Introducing, setup, review and field report of Eclipse for Scientific Computing on a Mac. Ranking for usability for different target groups.

English Posts, Field Reports, Fortran, How Tos, macOS, Programming

Keep using Evernote-Outlook Plugin

Posted on Monday February 22nd, 2021

Evernote has removed the Outlook plug-in in the new versions of its note-taking program. Many users have often used this – especially in professional use […]

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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

(Deutsch) Excel Makro-Add-in mit Menüband-Icon erstellen und weitergeben

Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2020

Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch.

German Posts, How Tos, Office

Dynamic charts in LibreOffice Calc

Posted on Saturday August 29th, 2020

Sometimes you want to visualize data in LibreOffice Calc, which you only get time by time. In the meantime, however, you want to view the […]

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ISO 8601 Parsing in Excel and Calc

Posted on Tuesday November 20th, 2018

If you have comma-separated data which has timestamps in ISO 8601-format (e.g. 2018-11-20T14:26:12+01:00) collected e.g. by a datalogger as SerialLogger and you want to use […]

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