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Mousepad
Mousepad is a simple text editor for Xfce
Screenshots
Latest Realease
0.4.2 (2019/07/28)
Getting it
The normal (and best) way to get the Mousepad application is to use the package manager or port system of your operating system.
If Mousepad isn't available there, or if you want a different version, you can download it in source from from https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/mousepad/.
Source code repository
Reporting Bugs
If you are experiencing a bug in mousepad
, your way of helping things getting fixed is to report a bug about it in Xfce GitLab. Please note that to do this you will need to have / create an account.
Report a new bug
If your bug has not been reported before, please submit a new bug report.
When writing your bug report, try to be as descriptive as possible, but avoid verbosity; Mozilla has a nice guide on how to write a bug report.
For more information, see Bug Reporting and Fixing.
File a new bug or enhancement request
Open Bugs
Here's a list (updated daily) of open bug reports with the date that bug was reported in parenthesis.
- Retain xattr / Extended file attributes on save (2024/04/20 23:44)
- Add right padding for RTL text (2024/03/23 10:58)
- enhance File operations (2024/03/14 18:54)
- Force text direction (2024/02/18 16:07)
- Show only leading and trailing whitespace (2024/01/01 07:03)
- Default File Extension (2023/11/21 12:16)
- Reset title bar icon to left in CSD (2023/10/30 17:06)
- please add 'select-all + copy' option to right click menu (2023/10/09 09:39)
- don't scroll while zooming (2023/09/28 23:19)
- session restore doesn't re-open all windows (2023/09/27 18:30)
- [Feature Request] Insert timestamp (date, time) with keyboard shortcut (2023/08/21 17:15)
- Save what you can in new encoding instead of aborting (2023/03/04 22:48)
- Feature Request: Option to warn that multiple tabs are about to be closed. (2022/05/03 11:00)
- Feature request: spell check for multi-lingual people (2022/03/28 13:01)
- FEATURE REQ: Copy window/tab filename to clipboard (2022/03/28 12:50)
- Add support for EditorConfig (2022/03/24 22:34)