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Mousepad

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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.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application types

Country of Origin

  • DE flagGermany
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Flathub
  • Xfce
4.2 / 5 Avg rating (4)
35likes
3comments
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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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Top Positive Comment
ZackGules
Sep 4, 2015
5

Its a very nice little editor. Its perfect for simple text graphics, and its ability to change text font, allows to view pseudographics as well. It has tabbed window support, printing, syntax highlighting.

However, its not always fit for the job, if you have multiple encodings. It allows to detect and open text in different encoding with live preview, as well as change string endings (Linux, Mac, Windows styles). BUT, it does not allow to save in other encoding. Open yes, create new (UTF8) yes, paste and save as UTF8 yes. But live conversion and export in other encoding dont work - and that might be crucial for text editing; unless one only uses one encodoing, or recodes text using different tool.

arsCynic ??
Nov 15, 2024
1

Lightweight, lightning fast. No-nonsense “notepad” as it should be.

tuva-hayabi
Nov 19, 2021
0

Mousepad is a simple and quick text editor, and it’s part of the Xfce desktop environment, so it gets installed with Xubuntu. Mousepad is slim and quick and it is perfect for simple text writing tasks. But it is not a beauty, I have to say, and for writing long texts, I’d rather use a word processing application.

What is Mousepad?

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. Features:

  • Complete support for UTF-8 text
  • Cut/Copy/Paste and Select All text
  • Search and Replace
  • Font selection
  • Word Wrap
  • Auto character coding detection (UTF-8 and some codesets)
  • Infinite Undo/Redo
  • Auto Indent
  • Multi-line Indent
  • Drag and Drop
  • Printing

Mousepad information

  • Developed by

    DE flagXfce
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.2
  • Alternatives

    76 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Mousepad, and it has gotten 35 likes

Mousepad was added to AlternativeTo by AndreLDM on Nov 17, 2013 and this page was last updated Apr 29, 2025.