Gott himself about adding the themes to the main FocusWriter distribution but that was only minutes ago. The site I linked to appears to have long since gone away. This is a word processor designed to put you in a mood and let your thoughts flow. It just doesn’t have much support for generating a TOC (Table of Contents), index or creating complex documents. You can justify and center text along with the standards of bold, italic, etc. FocusWriter does support the OpenDocument format as well as a few others, but, it is not as fully featured a word processor as many out there. If you happen to be writing a book which seems to be in the universe of one of the existing themes why not use one to put you in the mood? Yes, you can even find themes like Moleskin and Leathers which look like old hides one used to write on with a quill. If you have some fantastic cover art you can use it as a screen background while writing your book. Hopefully you clicked that link to see some screen shots of the themes. While I have only copied and modified existing themes, they do seem rather easy to change. A little bit of effort with search engines can probably find hundreds of themes. It comes with some default themes which are serviceable but idle hands have created some truly spectacular themes. Under Ubuntu’s ugly Unity desktop the current version still leaves the icky Ubuntu top bar and far right bar on the screen so it isn’t completely distraction free, but it is on good Linux desktops.Īnother wonderful feature is the community of people creating themes for this word processor. You can have one full monitor devoted to nothing but your thoughts. It has a wonderful “distraction free” mode which takes up the full screen presenting no menus or anything else. Several times per year this becomes my favorite tool for getting things done. is a cross platform word processor called FocusWriter. One of the more useful editors for creating blog posts, roughing out a chapter, etc.
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