Leafpad

Leafpad is a free and open-source graphical text editor for Linux, Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), and Maemo that is similar to the Microsoft Windows program Notepad. Created with the focus of being a lightweight text editor with minimal dependencies, it is designed to be simple-to-use and easy-to-compile.

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Software.name: Leafpad
Software.title: Leafpad
Software.logo: LeafpadLogo.svg
Software.logo alt: Logo for Leafpad, which depicts a blue pencil writing lines on a green leaf
Software.screenshot: Leafpad LXQt screenshot.png
Software.screenshot alt: Screenshot of the Leafpad program, showing its graphical user interface and an options dropdown and displaying Lorem ipsum text
Software.caption: Leafpad, on Arch Linux using LXQt
Software.developer: Tarot Osuji, Hugo Carvalho
Software.latest release version: 0.8.19
Software.programming language: C
Software.operating system: Linux, BSD, Maemo
Software.language count: 42
Software.language: English, Basque, Belarusian, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kirghiz, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Ossetian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Software.size: 91.3 kB on Arch Linux
Software.genre: Text editor
Software.license: GPL-2.0-or-later

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Leafpad is a simple GTK+ text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor. Leafpad is simple to use, is easily compiled, requires few libraries, and starts up quickly. This program is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2, see the file 'COPYING' for more information.

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Official website: tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad
Image: Leafpad-screenshot.png

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Commons category: Leafpad
software version identifier: 0.8.18
inception: 2004-11-11
source code repository URL: github.com/tarot231/leafpad

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Leafpad has a small install size compared to other graphical text editors and has minimal features such as codeset options, undo/redo, and the ability to choose fonts. Leafpad is the default text editor for the LXDE lightweight desktop environment, and thus Leafpad is found on Linux distributions that use LXDE as their desktop environment such as Raspberry Pi OS, as well as on some embedded systems. The program has been forked into Mousepad and l3afpad, and parts of Leafpad's code have been used in other text editors. Leafpad is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.