Several things: 1) Do not use a desktop environment (e.g GNOME, KDE). Use just a window manager. I personally suggest Sawfish. 2) If Abiword will work, use it. It's nice and usable. I use Emacs and LaTeX myself, but if you want a WYSIWYG processor, Abiword is fine. -- Leonid Grinberg lgrinberg@gmail.com http://www.lgrinberg.org