Mousepad
A simple, fast text editor for the Xfce desktop, meant for quickly editing text files.
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Package managers
- Flathub
flatpak install flathub org.xfce.mousepad
About Mousepad
Mousepad is the text editor of the Xfce desktop. It aims to be easy to use and quick, targeting everyday editing of text files rather than acting as a development environment or a heavily extended editor.
It tracks recent GTK releases and adopts useful new toolkit features. Settings such as word wrap and auto indent are available from the preferences dialog and menus, with additional hidden options reachable through Dconf Editor. A small set of plugins can be enabled in the preferences.
Strengths
- Light and quick to start
- Simple preferences dialog with extra settings through Dconf
- Keeps up with new GTK features
- Optional plugins
Limitations
- Deliberately not a full development environment
- Built for Linux desktops using GTK
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree as part of the Xfce project.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- The Xfce contributors
- Platforms
- Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Quick edits of text and config files on an Xfce or other GTK Linux desktop
- Categories
- Code editors
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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