Mousepad (software)

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Mousepad
Original author(s) Erik Harrison, Benedikt Meurer, Tarot Osuji [1]
Developer(s) Erik Harrison, Nick Schermer, Benedikt Meurer, Matthew Brush, Gaël Bonithon [1]
Initial releaseApril 17, 2006;19 years ago (2006-04-17) [2]
Stable release
0.6.5 [3]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 31 March 2025;2 months ago (31 March 2025)
Repository gitlab.xfce.org/apps/mousepad
Written in GTK [4]
Operating system Unix-like
Platform x86 64, aarch64, ppc64, i686, ARMhf [5]
Included with Xfce
Predecessor Leafpad
Size 436.2 kB [6]
Type Text editor
License GPL-2.0-or-later [7]
Website docs.xfce.org/apps/mousepad/

Mousepad is a graphical text editor written for Xfce, a Linux desktop environment. [8] The program has a small footprint, similar to Leafpad, [8] but has additional features such as plugins, search history and automatic reloading. [9] The name Mousepad is derived from the mouse in Xfce's logo. [10]

Contents

Mousepad was originally written as a fork of an existing text editor, Leafpad, [11] to improve support for printing. [12] [13] It was rewritten in December 2012 with version 0.3.0, which replaced the original code with a complete rewrite. [14]

Though written for Linux, Mousepad has been ported to FreeBSD [15] and is also available for macOS via MacPorts, [16] and Microsoft Windows via Cygwin. [17] It is the default text editor for Linux distributions that use Xfce, such as Xubuntu. [18] 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. [19]

Features

In addition to plugin support, [9] Mousepad has features including tabs, [20] copy and paste, Undo/Redo, drag and drop, keyboard shortcuts, [21] 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. [22]

Dependencies

Compiling Mousepad requires gtksourceview4-4.8.3, which is a library for GTK+ text and visuals, and is used for installing themes. [23] 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. [24] [25]

References

  1. 1 2 "AUTHORS". gitlab.xfce.org. 20 November 2020. Archived from the original on August 22, 2022. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Index of /src/apps/mousepad/0.2/". archive.xfce.org. Archived from the original on August 14, 2022. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
  3. ↑ "mousepad-0.6.5 · Tags · Apps / mousepad · GitLab". 31 March 2025. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  4. ↑ "Mousepad". gitlab.xfce.org. 13 May 2023. Retrieved July 27, 2023.
  5. ↑ "0.5.10 – Packages – GNU Guix". guix.gnu.org. Archived from the original on January 11, 2023. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
  6. ↑ "Arch Linux – mousepad 0.5.10-1". ArchLinux.org. July 9, 2022. Archived from the original on September 3, 2022. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
  7. ↑ "COPYING". gitlab.xfce.org. 10 March 2022. Archived from the original on August 22, 2022. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
  8. 1 2 Germain, Jack M. (August 22, 2012). "For Modest Mousepad, Simplicity Is Both Virtue and Vexation". Linux Insider. Archived from the original on August 22, 2022. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
  9. 1 2 Nestor, Marius (May 2, 2022). "Roundup of Xfce's Apps Update for April 2022: New Releases of Mousepad, Xfce Terminal, and Thunar". Linux Today. Archived from the original on August 15, 2022. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
  10. ↑ Kowalewski, Hubert (2008-07-01). "Conceptual blending and sign formation". Public Journal of Semiotics. 2 (2): 30–51. doi: 10.37693/pjos.2008.2.8826 . ISSN   1918-9907. Archived from the original on 2022-08-23. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
  11. ↑ "Template file for 'mousepad'". GitHub . Archived from the original on August 14, 2022. Retrieved August 14, 2022. Simple text editor for Xfce based on Leafpad
  12. ↑ Wallen, Jack (May 5, 2010). "Mousepad: A variation on the Leafpad theme". Ghacks . Archived from the original on August 24, 2022. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
  13. ↑ "Package: mousepad (0.5.10-1)". packages.debian.org. Debian. Archived from the original on December 29, 2013. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
  14. ↑ "mousepad/News". Xfce . Archived from the original on January 9, 2022. Retrieved August 14, 2022.
  15. ↑ "Port Details – mousepad Simple text editor for the Xfce Desktop". FreshPorts.org. July 20, 2022. Archived from the original on August 22, 2022. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
  16. ↑ "Install mousepad on macOS with MacPorts". MacPorts.org. Archived from the original on August 22, 2022. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
  17. ↑ "Cygwin Package Summary for mousepad". Cygwin.com. Archived from the original on August 23, 2022. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
  18. ↑ "Review – Xubuntu 19.10" (PDF). Full Circle Magazine. November 2019. p. 42. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 29, 2019. Retrieved September 26, 2022.
  19. ↑ "Kali Linux 2022.3". TechSpot. August 10, 2022. Archived from the original on September 25, 2022. Retrieved September 26, 2022.
  20. ↑ "Mousepad : A Simple And Useful Text Editor For Linux Mint". IHaveAPC.com. January 8, 2020. Archived from the original on June 26, 2022. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
  21. ↑ McManus, Sean; Cook, Mike (2021). Raspberry Pi For Dummies (4th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. p. 71. ISBN   978-1119796824. OCLC   1250377754. Archived from the original on 2023-01-11. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
  22. ↑ "Simple text editor for Xfce desktop environment". RepoScope.com. Archived from the original on August 22, 2022. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
  23. ↑ King, Bertel (June 20, 2017). "Write or Code Faster in Your Linux Text Editor With Custom Themes". MakeUseOf. Archived from the original on August 23, 2022. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
  24. ↑ "mousepad". XFCE GitLab (Markdown). 11 March 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-12-06. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  25. ↑ "Mousepad–0.5.10". LinuxFromScratch.org. Archived from the original on August 11, 2022. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
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