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wraith808:
Thanx 4wd, that's a really good find! :Thmbsup:
-Ath (January 16, 2011, 05:20 AM)
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+1.  I'd never heard of this...

40hz:
+2! :-*

Fan-freekin'-tastic!

4wd, you da man!  :Thmbsup:

4wd:
Thanks guys  :-[

If anyone is interested, Wikipedia was my jump point when I was looking for an alternative to an "in BIOS" Instant Onw OS, (the most common one is the rebranded SplashTop OS, eg. ASUS ExpressGate, etc).

xPUD was free but there's also Mandriva's InstantOn - (€9.9015 when you go to buy it), HyperSpace - (now owned by HP), Ubuntu and a few others.

I dare say most of the main Linux distros will probably have some form of 'Instant On' type sub-distro by now but they're all kind of aimed at getting you on the net as fast as possible and not what the OP wanted - still, xPUD at least provides a text editor :)

EDIT: Update Mandriva price and it's only 4:3 resolutions - a bit of narrow thinking.

Addendum: You can grab more opt packages for xPUD here.  Be warned, they are test versions.
And for those interested, Redo Backup & Recovery is based on xPUD.

aidan_cage:
The new version of WriteMonkey is near exactly what would work best. It's written for windows, though, so that doesn't work for the Linux camp.

I think it's time for me to set up a separate user in Windows that I can log into from the start up screen where privileges are restricted, and WriteMonkey autostarts with some sort of predefined rules. I know I can set it to stay on top, forcing full attention, but I need to find out if I can have it autostart with that feature locked.

There is also a "Flow" mode for sponsors (studying creative writing in school allotted me five euros to contribute, for now). Flow mode disallows the use of the backspace, delete, cut, copy, and paste keys, so you just move ahead with your own sense of inertia. I'd like to boot that automatically, too...

Edvard:
Nice.
WriteMonkey does look like just the ticket.
To get it to start up like you want, see if it takes command-line parameters and stick that in your startup script.

Q10 looks similar, but less features:
http://baara.com/q10/

Come to think of it, if you're still using XP you could even go with a minimal Explorer replacement like LiteStep or Blackbox, but that's probably more work than it's worth.
If you're using Windows 7, it's recommended to use the Omar installer (LOSI doesn't like Win7...)

I found a few similar editors for Linux, all more or less based on WriteRoom for Mac OSX:

jDarkRoom
http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/
Written in Java, so it runs on Windows natively and the Linux version interface is Desktop-Environment agnostic.
Has a 'no delete' mode as well.
Last updated May 2010.

PyRoom
http://pyroom.org/
Requires GTK, dunno why, there's almost no interface...
Not much feature-wise but soon will have plugin support.
Last updated March 2009.

TextRoom
http://textroom.sourceforge.net/
Requires Qt.
Sports a TON of features, including 'flow mode', typewriter noises, scratchpad, and a Mindmapper flowchart thingy based on Flo which looks quite useful.
Updated recently; as in Yesterday...
Windows portable version available with integrated libraries.

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