Comments on: Cutting out distractions

By: Jesse Grosjean

Jesse Grosjean — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:37:00 +0000

I’m the author of WriteRoom, just wanted to mention JDarkRoom for linux. It’s a java based WriteRoom clone. I haven’t actually used it myself, but it appears to provide at least the basic (which is the important part) of WriteRoom in Java, so it should work on Linux too I imagine.

By: greywulf

greywulf — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:37:00 +0000

I like the idea of using Compiz. If my laptop’s cheap’n'nasty graphic card could handle it, that is.

As an alternative, I wrote about how to turn Vim into a Writeroom-a-like here: http://wiki.greywulf.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/LupusGris/HowToMakeAWriteRoomForVim

Hope that helps!

Also, I reocmmend jDarkRoom too; it works well under Ubuntu if you follow the instructions to change your jdarkroom.properties file. The only problem I’ve found with it is that it drops from full screen when the File dialog is shown, and there’s no apparent way to restore it. Ah well.

By: No'

No' — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:37:00 +0000

saw that on ubuntuforums:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1235260

Very basic (no menu, just write – save – quit) but it works.

By: Stuart Langridge

Stuart Langridge — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:37:00 +0000

AbiWord’s got a full screen mode too, I think, if you wanted formatting…

By: davee

davee — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:37:00 +0000

That approach sounds kind-of like what I started doing a year or two back: it’s made a *huge* difference: See http://www.sungate.co.uk/?p=243

By: Zed

Zed — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:37:00 +0000

Ratpoison + Emacs. OK, so there’s one line for the status bar, and one line for the minibuffer, but I can live with that. Not much shinier than Emacs in a console window, of course.

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