Uberwriter

About

Uberwriter is a GTK+ based distraction free Markdown editor, mainly developed by Wolf Vollprecht and Manuel Genovés. It uses pandoc as backend for markdown parsing and offers a very clean and sleek user interface.

Install

You can get UberWriter on Flathub! Get it now

Contributions and localization

If you want to help to localize the project, just join us at Poeditor Any help is appreciated!

Building from Git

$ git clone https://github.com/UberWriter/uberwriter.git
$ cd uberwriter
$ meson builddir --prefix=/usr
# sudo ninja -C builddir install

To use uberwriter, please make sure you have some dependencies installed:

• Pandoc, the program used to convert Markdown to basically anything else (the package name should be pandoc in most distributions)
• Of course, gtk3 etc. needs to be installed as well since this is a gtk application
• webkit2gtk is also needed for the preview panel
• Please find these packages on your distribution: python3 python3-regex python3-setuptools python3-levenshtein python3-enchant python3-gi python3-cairo
• Optional dependencies are texlive for the pdftex module.

Running it without installing it

You can run UberWriter with ./uberwriter.in without installing it in the system, but you'll need to install and compile the schemas before:

# sudo cp data/de.wolfvollprecht.UberWriter.gschema.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/de.wolfvollprecht.UberWriter.gschema.xml
# sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

Building a flatpak package

It's also possible to build, run and debug a flatpak package. You'll need flatpak-builder for this:

$ cd build-aux/flatpak
$ flatpak-builder --force-clean --install --user _build de.wolfvollprecht.UberWriter.json