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xfce4-notes-plugin - Notes
Ideal for your quick notes
The notes plugin provides you a quick way to write down a todo list, to paste a piece of code, to leave a note to your friend, or whatever else you had like to do with a Post-It note.
Original Author: Mike Massonnet
Blog: http://blog.mmassonnet.info/search/label/notes
Usage
Some Tips
Notes are saved under $XDG_DATA_HOME/notes/ — $XDG_DATA_HOME is an environment variable defined by the XDG base directory specification and defaults to $HOME/.local/share.
Window Manager Hint: You probably want to uncheck the option “Skip windows that have skip pager or skip taskbar properties set” of Xfwm4 (Settings > Window Manager Tweaks > Cycling). The reason is that the notes plugin sets the skip pager hint so it doesn't clutter your pager, but you still want to access your notes by cycling to them with Alt+Tab.
Examples
___Todo_list___ ☑ Show an example ☑ Show some UTF8 codes ☐ Release a new version ___Random_thoughts___ ☐ Add bold/italic/… style ☐ Hope this gives you some ideas ___UTF8_codes___ Type Ctrl+Shift+u in GTK+ applications — 2014 “ 201C ” 201D ‣ 2023 … 2026 ⁂ 2042 ☐ 2610 ☑ 2611
Screenshots
Required Packages
- unique 1.0
For detailed information on the minimum required versions, check the configure.ac.in file.
Latest Release
- xfce4-notes-plugin 1.11.2 released (2025/02/01 20:56)xfce4-notes-plugin 1.11.2 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-notes-plugin/1.11/xfce4-notes-plugin-1.11.2.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-notes-plugin/1.11/xfce4-notes-plugin-1.11.2.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/panel-plugins/xfce4-notes-plugin/1.11/xfce4-notes-plugin-1.11.2.tar.bz2?sha256 What is xfce4-notes-plugin? =========================== Xfce4 Notes Plugin provides a quick way to paste text, to write down a list of things, to leave a note to a friend, or whatever is common to do with Post-It's. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/xfce4-notes-plugin Release notes for 1.11.2 ======================== - Add support for checkboxes for to-do lists - Minor fixes - Rewrite the error message on invalid path selection - Add text formatting popup menu - Make text cursor wider - Toggle tag on the whole line if there's no selection - Store tags more compact when saving a note - Add support for text formatting - Fix navigation update if note was added externally - Fix 'make distclean' - Update year in copyright - Don't destroy window if its directory isn't empty - Rename Xnp.WindowMonitor.src_events -> src_external - Fix "note-updated" signal for local changes - Fix note creation if file already exists - Work around buggy annotation for gtk_menu_shell_append() - Use timer instead of idle to handle file events - Get rid of the refresh button - Remove the "window-updated" signal - Reload notes on external file change events - Handle external file creation events - Optimize monitored file events queue - Queue monitored file events - Don't load binary files from notes directory - Always save notes after manual editing - Get rid of Xnp.Window "internal-change" property - Bind Ctrl-Shift-Tab to cycle notes backwards - Make deleting a group of notes more secure - Make Ctrl-Tab cycle through notes - Fix text cursor color in dark themes - Replace $XDG_CONFIG_HOME with ~/.config in gtk.css - Rework access to Xnp.WindowMonitor - Handle external file renaming event - More intensive use of GIO - delete_window: handle case when folder was externally removed - Handle external file deletion event - Don't show arrow buttons when notes tabs are enabled - Fix warnings about hiding inherited methods from Gtk.SourceView - Translation Updates: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (Canada), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Vietnamese
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