KoalaWriter

Koalawriter is a fullscreen, distraction-free plain text editor with customizable background images and ambient music. Like its Mac OS counterpart Ommwriter, its...

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koalawriter is a fullscreen, distractionfree plain text editor with customizable background images and ambient music. like its mac os counterpart ommwriter, its onscreen controls fade out of sight when you begin to type and appear again on mouseover. keyboard clicks, ambient tracks and background images can all be added by dropping relevant files into corresponding folders. requires a phonon module for audio.

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ambient sound configurable background image and color configurable keyboard sound configurable possibility to add your personal ambient sounds, background images and keyboard sounds editor transparency font family, color and size configurable .txt format compatible autosave every 3 minutes

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Distraction free writing Distraction free UI

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