Original author(s) | Erik Harrison, Benedikt Meurer, Tarot Osuji [1] |
---|---|
Developer(s) | Erik Harrison, Nick Schermer, Benedikt Meurer, Matthew Brush, Gaël Bonithon [1] |
Initial release | April 17, 2006[2] |
Stable release | 0.6.1
[3]
/ May 13, 2023 |
Repository |
gitlab |
Written in | GTK [3] |
Operating system | Unix-like |
Platform | x86 64, aarch64, ppc64, i686, ARMhf [4] |
Included with | Xfce |
Predecessor | Leafpad |
Size | 436.2 kB [5] |
Type | Text editor |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later [6] |
Website |
docs |
Mousepad is a graphical text editor written for Xfce, a Linux desktop environment. [7] The program has a small footprint, similar to Leafpad, [7] but has additional features such as plugins, search history and automatic reloading. [8] The name Mousepad is derived from the mouse in Xfce's logo. [9]
Mousepad was originally written as a fork of an existing text editor, Leafpad, [10] to improve support for printing. [11] [12] It was rewritten in December 2012 with version 0.3.0, which replaced the original code with a complete rewrite. [13]
Though written for Linux, Mousepad has been ported to FreeBSD [14] and is also available for macOS via MacPorts, [15] and Microsoft Windows via Cygwin. [16] It is the default text editor for Linux distributions that use Xfce, such as Xubuntu. [17] Kali Linux uses Mousepad as its default text editor, but modifies the code to add a newline at the end of files so that they are POSIX-compliant and do not merge when printing multiple files back-to-back. [18]
In addition to plugin support, [8] Mousepad has features including tabs, [19] copy and paste, Undo/Redo, drag and drop, keyboard shortcuts, [20] printing, UTF-8 support, line numbers, searching capabilities (with a replace option), font selection, word wrap, automatic and multi-line indent, and both auto character coding detection and manual codeset options. [21]
Compiling Mousepad requires gtksourceview4-4.8.3, which is a library for GTK+ text and visuals, and is used for installing themes. [22] DConf-0.40.0, a dconf package, and dbus-glib-0.112, a GLib tool to interface with D-Bus, are both optional dependencies, along with gspell, a spell-checker, and libxfce4ui, which may be used to display a widget in the XFCE desktop environment. [23] [24]
Simple text editor for Xfce based on Leafpad
Original author(s) | Erik Harrison, Benedikt Meurer, Tarot Osuji [1] |
---|---|
Developer(s) | Erik Harrison, Nick Schermer, Benedikt Meurer, Matthew Brush, Gaël Bonithon [1] |
Initial release | April 17, 2006[2] |
Stable release | 0.6.1
[3]
/ May 13, 2023 |
Repository |
gitlab |
Written in | GTK [3] |
Operating system | Unix-like |
Platform | x86 64, aarch64, ppc64, i686, ARMhf [4] |
Included with | Xfce |
Predecessor | Leafpad |
Size | 436.2 kB [5] |
Type | Text editor |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later [6] |
Website |
docs |
Mousepad is a graphical text editor written for Xfce, a Linux desktop environment. [7] The program has a small footprint, similar to Leafpad, [7] but has additional features such as plugins, search history and automatic reloading. [8] The name Mousepad is derived from the mouse in Xfce's logo. [9]
Mousepad was originally written as a fork of an existing text editor, Leafpad, [10] to improve support for printing. [11] [12] It was rewritten in December 2012 with version 0.3.0, which replaced the original code with a complete rewrite. [13]
Though written for Linux, Mousepad has been ported to FreeBSD [14] and is also available for macOS via MacPorts, [15] and Microsoft Windows via Cygwin. [16] It is the default text editor for Linux distributions that use Xfce, such as Xubuntu. [17] Kali Linux uses Mousepad as its default text editor, but modifies the code to add a newline at the end of files so that they are POSIX-compliant and do not merge when printing multiple files back-to-back. [18]
In addition to plugin support, [8] Mousepad has features including tabs, [19] copy and paste, Undo/Redo, drag and drop, keyboard shortcuts, [20] printing, UTF-8 support, line numbers, searching capabilities (with a replace option), font selection, word wrap, automatic and multi-line indent, and both auto character coding detection and manual codeset options. [21]
Compiling Mousepad requires gtksourceview4-4.8.3, which is a library for GTK+ text and visuals, and is used for installing themes. [22] DConf-0.40.0, a dconf package, and dbus-glib-0.112, a GLib tool to interface with D-Bus, are both optional dependencies, along with gspell, a spell-checker, and libxfce4ui, which may be used to display a widget in the XFCE desktop environment. [23] [24]
Simple text editor for Xfce based on Leafpad