Hello, I recently got a Librem-11 tablet. I’m hoping to find a word processor like Libre Office Writer. Right now all I can find and use is gedit, which is insufficient for work. Any ideas? Thanks!

I’ve used LyX on the Librem 5, so it should be even better on the Librem 11.

[image] amarok: is LibreOffice not available via apt It is, but requires 266 MB in 151 packages and the install of those uses 988MB. Not sure why it didn’t come pre-installed. Maybe the screen is too small or the CPU too wimpy or Crimson too unstable, or no time to test. I’m inclined not to…

It’s also not touchscreen optimized, as far as I know, which could be part of it. If you don’t need the whole suite, you can install only parts, like just the writer. Flatpaks offer a couple of alternatives with varying features (particularly for x86, not so much for aarch) - from same size to muc…

I installed Libreoffice-writer from the repo. But it was too buggy to use. It’s not tablet friendly at this time. I was hoping there was a tablet friendly word processor. Ideally, something that’s in the PureOS Store.

I’d assume that such a thing would have been on many wish-lists of all the good, bad and weird linux users everywhere. The juxtaposition is the problem, as touchscreens are often without the all important text editing feature: keyboard - hence a wordprocessor for touchscreen computer is probably a b…

I recommend emacs in terminal (started with the -nw option). The terminal is very mobile screen friendly, as it’s always been designed to use as a narrow window with a limited number of characters in each row. If you need pretty documents instead of just text, LaTex is a phenomenal software and is …

There is always vi, some folks swear by it, (or at it). It makes me long for the days of WordStar 3.0! Or teco on a PDP-11.

Teco was my fav on DEC, Senator was my fav on CDC Cyber. Vi… not so fav on anything.

And what’s the touch support like on emacs? vi? teco? The OP wanted something that is “tablet friendly” although it’s not clear whether the scope of that is screen size, touch support or both. Or something else.

Touch support. None of the buttons were working on LibreOffice Writer. Nor could I navigate the menu bar by keyboard command. It’s just non-functional.

[image] Mobile Libre Office Librem 5 Did you installed the package: libreoffice-gtk3 sudo apt install libreoffice-gtk3 on a Librem 11 and Librem 5 it should help with context menus, and possibly other menus.

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