

The updated version comes with four themes and lets you add custom themes as well.Īlternatively, you can install FocusWriter via the command line.įor Ubuntu/LinuxMint systems, use the below command: $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gottcode/gcppa The FocusWriter version on Synaptic Manager is 1.4.5 but the latest version of the application is 1.5.3. It should take less than a minute for the application to download. If you’re running LinuxMint, head over to Synaptic Package Manager or Software Manager to search for and install FocusWriter. Maybe, there are more distractions for authors in our era making it hard for them to focus on writing.īuilt on the Qt C++ toolkit, FocusWriter is a lightweight program.

Well, William Shakespeare, Vladimir Nabokov and Jane Austen never complained about distractions. Nothing should come between an author and his writing. One of the biggest touted virtues of FocusWriter is its distraction-free capabilities. Now when there are already several solid writing applications (including venerable ones like Gedit), do we really need another writing app? I’ll leave that for you to decide. Today, I bring you FocusWriter, a free writing application available for different operating systems (Linux, Windows and Mac). Nothing panders to the insatiable human appetite for more, more and more than Linux and the broader open source ecosystem.Īpart from the dozens of Linux distributions, there are a gazillion free open source applications ranging from databases to text editors to games and all the categories in between.
