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;17 years ago (2006-04-17) [2]
Stable release
0.6.1 [3] / May 13, 2023;8 months ago (2023-05-13)
Repository gitlab.xfce.org/apps/mousepad
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.xfce.org/apps/mousepad/

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]

Contents

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]

Features

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]

Dependencies

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]

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