Mousepad
Mousepad is a simple text editor for Xfce
Introduction
Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor. Our target is an editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins. On the other hand we try to use the latest GTK features available, which means that if GTK adds something new in a major release that is useful for the editor, we will likely bump the GTK dependency and integrate this new feature in Mousepad.
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Settings
The preferences dialog shown above is the easiest way to set Mousepad settings. Some of them are also accessible via the menubar, e.g. “Word Wrap” and “Auto Indent” in the “Document” menu.
All these settings, plus some “hidden” ones, are also accessible using GSettings command line tool. You can get a list of everything about Mousepad in GSettings with this command:
gsettings list-recursively org.xfce.mousepad
Then, to enable e.g. automatic indentation, just do
gsettings set org.xfce.mousepad.preferences.view auto-indent true
See man gsettings and gsettings help for more details.
A graphical alternative to gsettings is Dconf Editor, normally available from your distribution repositories: see https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DconfEditor.
Printing
The settings for printing are treated separately, in the file ~/.config/Mousepad/mousepadrc. Create this file if it does not exist, then carry out a printing operation to the end (you can print in a file), and Mousepad will fill in the configuration file with the values set in the print dialog. Be sure to leave the value of PageSetupSaved at true so that all settings are reloaded the next time you print.
Keybindings
After its first use, Mousepad will generate the file ~/.config/Mousepad/accels.scm, containing the list of configurable keybindings. To customize a keybinding, uncomment the corresponding line by removing the semicolon at the beginning, then change the shortcut at the end of the line, without touching the rest.
Required packages
Mousepad depends on the following packages:
- GTK >=3.22.0
- GLib >=2.52.0
- xfconf >=4.12.0
- GtkSourceView >=3.24.0
Latest Release
- mousepad 0.6.3 released (2024/10/21 12:18)mousepad 0.6.3 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/mousepad/0.6/mousepad-0.6.3.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/mousepad/0.6/mousepad-0.6.3.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/mousepad/0.6/mousepad-0.6.3.tar.bz2?sha256 What is mousepad? ================= A simple text editor for Xfce. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/apps/mousepad/ Release notes for 0.6.3 ======================= - build: Force plugins to be built - Added missing Keywords entry to .desktop file - Do not set new file readonly when using admin protocol - Take into account user cancellation when using the admin protocol - Add support for admin protocol - Apply .clang-format file - Remove unnecessary dirname in local includes - clang-format: Use IncludeBlocks::Regroup - clang-format: Break after assignment operator - clang-format: Insert a newline at end of file if missing - print: Remove useless test - Apply .clang-format file - clang-format: Add file - shortcuts-plugin: Fix shortcuts-editor include - recent-menu: Do not add already open files - Do not define G_DISABLE_CHECKS in release mode - Do not use g_log_set_always_fatal() - test-plugin: Update actions after previous commit - Don't set buffer as unmodified before reloading if externally modified - Translation Updates: Albanian, Bulgarian, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), Estonian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Lithuanian, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish
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