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Questions related to installation or use of the Mendeley citation and reference manager, including its LibreOffice and browser plugins.

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Mendeley 1.19 update makes cpu 102%, How to check causes of this?

I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. After upgrading to Mendeley Desktop 1.19 edition CPU runs over 100%. As I check htop there is not any other processes running to have over 100% CPU. How can I check What is wrong, or what causes this situation? Here is…
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Mendeley desktop won't work on ubuntu 16.04

I've been trying to install Mendeley on ubuntu 16.04. I followed the installation guide on their website but it simply doesn't start. The icon appears when I run it and in 3 seconds it disappears. Any thoughts? Output of running mendeleydesktop in…
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Mendeley Reference manager install issue with Ubuntu 22

Mendeley recently moved from the Desktop version to "Mendeley Reference Manager." Link: https://www.mendeley.com/download-reference-manager/ It downloads an AppImage file. I make the file executable: chmod a+x…
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Mendeley Reference Manager crashes on start in Ubuntu 22.04

I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 (from 20.04) and now my Mendeley Reference Manager AppImage won't start. I made the AppImage executable and confirmed that libfuse2 is installed. When I try to run the AppImage file from the terminal, I get the…
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Force Mendeley Desktop GTK theme

I've been trying for a while to set the GTK theme of the Mendeley desktop UI, without success. The reason I want to do this is because I am using a dark theme, and that Mendeley is unreadable (dark font on dark bg) with this theme. The two relevant…
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How to link Mendeley plugin and MS word in Playonlinux

i want to use Mendeley and MS word 2013 in PlayOnLinux , Is that possible? I installed mendeley in the same virtual drive of MS office, so i manage to install the mendeley plugin for word however it didn't work so far, they refers an error 429.…
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How to fix small GUI on Mendeley Desktop?

I installed Mendeley desktop on my laptop which has a high DPI screen (3200x1800). The GUI is extremely tiny and I've tried googling ways to force the GUI to be larger or adapt it for my screen to no avail. I really would like a way to make it…
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Cannot install Mendeley LibreOffice (snap) citation plugin

I just updated to the latest LibreOffice (6.0.4.2) but I changed from the traditionally installed version to the snap version of LibreOffice. Now, when I run Mendeley (1.19) I no longer see the option to install the LibreOffice plugin. Could this be…
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Mendeley Desktop only runs with sudo

I have installed Mendeley Desktop (https://www.mendeley.com/download-mendeley-desktop/ubuntu/instructions/) in my computer. It turns out that I can only run the program through the terminal, by sudo mendeleydesktop . If I try to run it from the…
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LibreOffice Writer Mendeley {Formatting Citation} frozen, any idea?

I am using LibreOffice 6.1.4.2 with Mendeley 1.19.3 on Ubuntu 18.10. This is quite bothering me that when I cite a reference from Mendely, the citation just freezes and the {Formatting Citation} just can turn to your citation, nor does the inserted…
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PDF book opens in Mendeley when openned from Calibre

I have Ubuntu Gnome installed and I am using i3wm. Everytime I double click a book in Calibre to open it it opens in Mendeley desktop. This doesn't happen under Gnome. Could you explain why this happens and how I can fix it?
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Mendeleydesktop does not load full screen on Ubuntu 16.04

I have been using MendeleyDesktop 1.17.9 for a while, but for some reason this week the app is not loading properly. For some reason it seems to only load part of the screen and it will not let me resize the window. I have included a picture below…
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dpkg: error processing package mendeleydesktop (--install)

Now I am sick of this error and after trying all the things that I found from similar questions, I decided to post this. So I am trying to install mendeleydesktop on my newly installed Ubuntu 14.04 : sudo dpkg -i…
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Libreoffice Mendeley Plugin stopped merging citations

After a number of successful merges, Mendeley plugin for Libreoffice does not merge citations anymore. The document I am working on it has almost 100 citations. How can I make it to work as before? Specifications: OS: 14.04 Libreoffice version:…
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install Mendeley desktop

I had Mendeley desktop on Ubuntu 18.04 and previous versions. It runned perfectly. Now I have the 20.04.1 Ubuntu version and I'm not able to install it. After downloading it from the Mendeley page and trying to install it appears a message: There is…
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