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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

Monthly NO-IP Account Confirmation

Posted on Monday November 30th, 2015

Now the DNS-Hoster NO-IP follows the example of “DynDNS” who did this a couple years before. You have to confirm your account monthly – motivating […]

German Posts, English Posts, News, Network

Java’s Swing GTK LaF nice and pretty on Ubuntu

Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2015

In Ubuntu Java apps which use Swing’s GTK Look and Feel (LaF) do not appear as native applications. The menus does not have borders and […]

German Posts, English Posts, GNU/Linux, How Tos, Java, Ubuntu

wxMaxima Update

Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2015

In wxMaxima 13 (Linux Mint 17, Ubuntu 14.04) it is not possible to type brackets as “[” or “]”. The ppa from István Blahota provides […]

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

Octave’s GUI did not work after MacPorts-Update

Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2015

After the last MacPorts update (v2.3.4), Octave’s GUI did not run anymore. The reason was the wrong gcc variant.

German Posts, English Posts, macOS, Programming

Display Java’s Swing menus correctly in Linux Mint’s GTK LaF

Posted on Sunday November 1st, 2015

Since GTK 3 has been introduced Java Swing applications have a bug in displaying their menus when using the GTK Look and Feel (LaF). At […]

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

ShowAllPorts – RS-232 Portlister

Posted on Monday July 27th, 2015

GPS Logger, measuring devices and similar instruments are connected via serial cable to a computer. To find out the correct device name is cumbersome. ShowAllPorts […]

Java, Software