Leafpad

Leafpad
Developer(s)Tarot Osuji
Initial releaseNovember 11, 2004 (2004-11-11)
Stable release
0.8.19 / December 4, 2022 (2022-12-04)
Repositorygithub.com/tarot231/leafpad
Written inC
Operating systemLinux, BSD, Maemo
Size91.3 kB on Arch Linux
Available in42 languages
List of languages
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
TypeText editor
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websitetarot.freeshell.org/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.

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.