@gnomelibre yah, that's the one. It's not every gnome app, but I've had similar experiences with a lot of them (and with just using gnome itself. I don't know if it's a python thing (which I think is what Apostrophe is written in, IIRC), a GTK thing, or what, but if you have to have a recent computer to use a text editor we're really failing way more than I thought we were. Honestly, my computer isn't latest top of the line, but it's pretty good too.