(request)Focus Writer and/or TextRoom .Pet Please.

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(request)Focus Writer and/or TextRoom .Pet Please.

#1 Post by Gnuxo »

Full screen writing environment. Customizable text colors and backgrounds and themes to keep you focused and inspired on whatever your writing.
Auto saving your work, so you don't have to. Multiple formats to save to, including the odt format.

Abiword, eat your heart out.

Homepage: http://gottcode.org/focuswriter/


Sooooooooo....a .pet please?

Edit: I'm still torn between this program and textroom because both programs are so good. Textroom has a music player built in as well. :?
Textroom can also export to google docs.

I didn't want to just request Focus Writer, because I think that Text Room deserves a .pet as well.

Homepage: textroom.sourceforge.net

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#3 Post by Gnuxo »

Oh thank you!!!!

But it's for Saluki. Will it work on an older pup?

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#4 Post by pemasu »

Here is my post about it in Saluki thread. It needs libzip also.

http://208.109.22.214/puppy/viewtopic.p ... c5c#610806

About other Puppies. I have no idea.

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#5 Post by Gnuxo »

I installed the dependencies for it and...well...

I got this error when opening it from terminal.

sh-4.1# focuswriter
focuswriter: symbol lookup error: focuswriter: undefined symbol: _ZN9QListData11detach_growEPii
sh-4.1#

What version of QT do I need?

PPM only had 4.6.

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#6 Post by pemasu »

I think best pet would be the qt libs from Saluki repo.

http://www.smokey01.com/saluki/pet_pack ... -4.8.0.pet

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#7 Post by Gnuxo »

Thanks!

Now I can remove abiword. :)

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#8 Post by Gnuxo »

I have a major glitch to report!

FocusWriter will freeze when trying to save or open a file.

I lost all that I was working on and had to manually shut down my computer because I couldn't get out the program. :(

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#9 Post by pemasu »

Sorry about your misfortune. There might be other focuswriters around in murga-linux, but I am not aware of them.

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#10 Post by Gnuxo »

Is there a .pet for text room then? It's an older program.

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#12 Post by Billtoo »

pemasu wrote:Sorry about your misfortune. There might be other focuswriters around in murga-linux, but I am not aware of them.
It's available in puppy package manager in precise puppy beta2 , after configuring the repositories etc.
I'm finding that the ppm in precise beta 2 is working very well when it comes to installing software from the precise repos..
It might be worthwhile to give precise puppy beta 2 a try.
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#13 Post by Gnuxo »

I ultimately realized that there was nothing wrong with the focuswriter.pet that I got from pemasu. The issue was related to the libqt4.8 pet that he gave me.
Some dependency must have been missing on my end or within the pet itself.

So...I had to remove focuswriter and libqt.4.8.

I might have to go with an older version of focus writer or just go with text room.

:(

I am trying proom and I'm confused how to use it.

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#14 Post by `f00 »

focuswriter - or it may have needed something like Thunar to open a file (or similar Saluki basic)
@Billtoo - good news from the precise run :), 'horses for courses'

Proom 0.4 and discussion leading to it seem fairly do-able for a lightweight writing 'environment' (haven't tried it quite yet personally, so I'm merely going by description for now).. the seed feature reminds me of NoteCase with its nodes, but also there's a nice touch in saving to <your/choice/of/dir> - edit the script and see how it goes ;)

For freedom from distraction, opening just about any editor on a separate desktop by itself might work as a done-deal alternative.

Editors come in all flavors for various niches - sometimes I use xpad (no decor is an option and the base is in systray/dock), teagtk, nicoedit (has running backup of working file 'til you explicitly save), medit, xfw/xfv, NoteTab (the free lite version under Wine) and others according to what's being edited/viewed and filetype needs. Variety is good but it takes awhile to find what each does best for you and set them up accordingly - for example, I like teagtk but not wild about the open dialog/kwas so use bookmarks/mru there (and the crapfile for useful snippets). NoteTab is another nice one (being wine-based, it has some useful extras).

Others may like OO or similar, so there is no one-size-fits-all for everyone :lol: good thing, abiword could be a pitb at times.. (apologies to abi-fans)

@Gnuxo - so what version of puppy do you use? Some may draw from a 'common' repo as a rule, but there's always exceptions for one reason or another

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#15 Post by Gnuxo »

I actually run 5 or 6 different puppies on different partitions.

But I'm using Macpup right now and Macpup is where I want focus writer or whichever to go.

I've tried to get every dependency for the program manually but it seems like there's always some error.

....Perhaps it is thunar that is the issue, I don't know.

When I used proom, there are no preferences or anything such. I couldn't even figure out how to exit out of it. Textroom at least has a hotkey for options, proom would have been better if it had something like that.

It wasn't even fullscreen. It just took up an awkward amount of space. If it's supposed to be distraction free, I didn't feel that. Proom itself felt to me like a distraction.

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#16 Post by Geoffrey »

In regard to Focuswriter, I have been unable to get the icons to show in the application, I've downloaded and compiled it myself and still no luck, any ideas?.. the icons are located /usr/share/focuswriter/icons/hicolor.
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#17 Post by Gnuxo »

I decided to try pyroom. It only needs python and some related libraries and is gtk based. However I can't it to run.

Could someone try pyroom and tell me what dependencies it needs and how to get it working?

Homepage: pyroom.org

Pyroom .deb: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/u ... -2_all.deb

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#18 Post by Geoffrey »

Gnuxo wrote:I decided to try pyroom. It only needs python and some related libraries and is gtk based. However I can't it to run.

Could someone try pyroom and tell me what dependencies it needs and how to get it working?

Homepage: pyroom.org

Pyroom .deb: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/u ... -2_all.deb
Here is pyroom for Saluki, I've made a package that will get the dependencies for Saluki, the dependencies being Python, pyxdg and gettext-tools, It appears to work fine, the download site says that it's been tested with Python 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6, Saluki uses Python 2.7, http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 319#633319

Or you could try AdobeAIR Focused that should work on any version of puppy though AdobeAIR runtime is a little on the large size, Focused has more features than pyroom, Focused here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 713#627713 get AdobeAIR-2.6-SDK.pet from here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 376#627376
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#19 Post by Gnuxo »

*Sigh* So much to uninstall.

Do you know what would be nice to improve the PPM? When you uninstall a package and it's dependencies are no longer needed, there should an option to automatically remove them.

Similar to Apt-get auto-remove.

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#20 Post by Gnuxo »

The link to get adobe-air is broken.

So I can't even try focused.

...Also when I open the pyroom.pet, it doesn't fetch any dependencies.

I'm using Macpup, so that's probably the reason. Do you think that python 2.6 would still work?

Where can I get python 2.7?

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