Mousepad (software)
Mousepad is a graphical text editor written for Xfce, a Linux desktop environment. The program has a small footprint, similar to Leafpad, but has additional features such as plugins, search history and automatic reloading. The name Mousepad is derived from the mouse in Xfce's logo.
| Original author(s) | Erik Harrison, Benedikt Meurer, Tarot Osuji |
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| Developer(s) | Erik Harrison, Nick Schermer, Benedikt Meurer, Matthew Brush, Gaël Bonithon |
| Initial release | April 17, 2006 |
| Stable release | 0.6.1
/ May 13, 2023 |
| Repository | gitlab |
| Written in | GTK |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Platform | x86 64, aarch64, ppc64, i686, ARMhf |
| Included with | Xfce |
| Predecessor | Leafpad |
| Size | 436.2 kB |
| Type | Text editor |
| License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Website | docs |
Mousepad was originally written as a fork of an existing text editor, Leafpad, to improve support for printing. It was rewritten in December 2012 with version 0.3.0, which replaced the original code with a complete rewrite.
Though written for Linux, Mousepad has been ported to FreeBSD and is also available for macOS via MacPorts, and Microsoft Windows via Cygwin. It is the default text editor for Linux distributions that use Xfce, such as Xubuntu. 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.