gedit Alternatives for Xfce

gedit is not available for Xfce but there are a few alternatives with similar functionality. The best Xfce alternative is SciTE, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to gedit and four of them are available for Xfce so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Xfce alternatives to gedit are Mousepad, medit and MadEdit.

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Official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment. Has syntax highlighting and is suitable for programming, with support for several languages. It is extensible with plugins.

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gedit alternatives page was last updated Jul 15, 2024
  1. SciTE icon
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    SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor. Originally built to demonstrate Scintilla, it has grown to be a generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs. It is best used for jobs with simple configurations - I use it for building test and demonstration...

    151 SciTE alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce
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  2. Mousepad icon
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    A simple text editor for the Xfce desktop environment. Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins.

    77 Mousepad alternatives
    Mousepad screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Xfce

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Dark Mode
    2.  No Tracking
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  Simple text editor
    5.  Gtk
    6.  Tabbed interface
    7.  Drag and Drop
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  3. medit icon
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    medit is a programming and around-programming text editor.

    Started originally as a simple built-in editor component in GGAP, it grew up to a real text editor.

    52 medit alternatives
    medit screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce

    medit Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Tabbed interface
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  4. MadEdit icon
     14 likes

    MadEdit is an Open-Source and Cross-Platform Text/Hex Editor written in C++ and wxWidgets.

    135 MadEdit alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Xfce

    MadEdit Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  Hex Editor
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.2.9, released in February 2009, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

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