Mousepad (software)
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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]
Original author(s) | Erik Harrison, Benedikt Meurer, Tarot Osuji[1] |
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Developer(s) | Erik Harrison, Nick Schermer, Benedikt Meurer, Matthew Brush, Gaël Bonithon[1] |
Initial release | April 17, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-04-17)[2] |
Stable release | |
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 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]