NotePadLX 1.1

NotePadLX 1.1

Improvements

• Polished dialogs: Find, Preferences, User Defined Language, Go to line, Column Editor and the other dialogs have their labels, fields and group boxes lined up, and no text is cut off.
  • Find: the Search Mode and Transparency boxes sit side by side on one row, and Transparency is switched on from a checkbox in its title.
  • Preferences: every category shows in the list without scrolling.
• Clearer active tab: the active document tab stands out from the others in every theme, and its line keeps the same colour whatever colour theme you pick.
• Toolbar: toggle buttons that are on (Function List, Document Map…) are shown in a neutral grey instead of blue.

Downloads

File	For
NotePadLX-1.1-x86_64.AppImage	Any x86_64 distribution with glibc 2.43+: chmod +x and run
notepadlx_1.1_amd64.deb	Ubuntu 26.04 (Qt 6.10): sudo apt install ./notepadlx_1.1_amd64.deb
SHA256SUMS	Checksums

NotePadLX 1.0.1

NotePadLX 1.0.1

Fixes

• Automatic backup is back on by default: session snapshot and periodic backup keep your unsaved changes when you close NotePadLX, and when the computer crashes or loses power. Closing no longer asks to save.
  Upgrading from 1.0? Your existing settings keep the old value: turn it on in Settings › Preferences › Backup › Enable session snapshot and periodic backup.
• Tab bar: it no longer disappears when you open a file from the file manager.

Downloads

File	For
NotePadLX-1.0.1-x86_64.AppImage	Any x86_64 distribution with glibc 2.43+: chmod +x and run
notepadlx_1.0.1_amd64.deb	Ubuntu 26.04 (Qt 6.10): sudo apt install ./notepadlx_1.0.1_amd64.deb
SHA256SUMS	Checksums

NotePadLX 1.0

NotePadLX 1.0

Every phase of the port is done.

New

• Plugins: a Linux plugin API that keeps the Notepad++ plugin interface (menu commands, notifications, NPPM_* messages, docked panels). Plugins are .so files in ~/.local/share/notepadlx/plugins/<Name>/<Name>.so; two sample plugins are included. Plugins › Open Plugins Folder… and Settings › Import › Import plugin(s)… work, and -noPlugin starts without them. See docs/PLUGINS.md.
• Find in Finder: search inside the search results, into a new, closable results panel.
• File associations: NotePadLX registers itself for the text file types of the languages it opens.
• CI: every push is built and tested on Ubuntu 26.04 with GitHub Actions.

Downloads

File	For
NotePadLX-1.0-x86_64.AppImage	Any x86_64 distribution with glibc 2.43+: chmod +x and run
notepadlx_1.0_amd64.deb	Ubuntu 26.04 (Qt 6.10): sudo apt install ./notepadlx_1.0_amd64.deb
SHA256SUMS	Checksums

NotePadLX 0.9

NotePadLX 0.9

New

• Change the interface language without restarting: pick it in Settings › Preferences › General; the menus, the tab and tray menus and every open dialog switch at once. The menu names (File, Edit, …) and the Preferences, Find / Replace, Style Configurator and User Defined Language dialogs are now translated too.
• Save files that need admin rights: a file only root can write (e.g. /etc/hosts) opens editable, and saving asks for your password (polkit / pkexec). Files with no write permission at all still open read-only.
• Right mouse button + wheel switches between documents.
• Session files (with the extension set in Preferences › MISC.) open as sessions; workspace files open in Project Panel 1.
• HTML and XML files open in the encoding their header declares.
• "Use the first line as tab name" (Preferences › New Document) works.
• -monitor on the command line opens files in tail -f mode.
• Style Configurator: each light / dark mode remembers its own theme; Go to settings opens the matching Preferences page.
• Hung network mounts (NFS, SMB) no longer freeze the editor; the network path warning offers Always load / Always skip.

Downloads

File	For
NotePadLX-0.9-x86_64.AppImage	Any x86_64 distribution with glibc 2.43+: chmod +x and run
notepadlx_0.9_amd64.deb	Ubuntu 26.04 (Qt 6.10): sudo apt install ./notepadlx_0.9_amd64.deb
SHA256SUMS	Checksums

NotePadLX 0.8

NotePadLX 0.8

New

• Move / Open in New Instance: View › Move/Clone › Move to New Instance / Open in New Instance, also in the tab's right-click menu. Dragging a tab out of the window moves it to a new window (hold Ctrl to open a copy instead). Disabled for unsaved or new files, as in Notepad++.
• Pin Tab: a pin button on each tab; pinned tabs stay at the start of the tab bar and are kept in sessions.
• Tray icon: minimize or close to the system tray (Settings › Preferences › MISC).
• Follows the desktop's light / dark switch when dark mode is set to follow the system.
• Theme tab colours: the tab bar styles of Style Configurator › Global Styles now apply when a theme or you change them.
• Translated dialogs: Go to Line, Windows, Debug Info, Incremental Search, MD5 / SHA, Run, Run Macro, Column Editor, Shortcut Mapper and Find characters in range follow the interface language. Preferences, Find / Replace and the Style Configurator are next.
• Print dialog: opens with its options shown, and printing to a file suggests a PDF named after the document.

Downloads

File	For
NotePadLX-0.8-x86_64.AppImage	Any x86_64 distribution with glibc 2.43+: chmod +x and run
notepadlx_0.8_amd64.deb	Ubuntu 26.04 (Qt 6.10): sudo apt install ./notepadlx_0.8_amd64.deb
SHA256SUMS	Checksums

NotePadLX 0.7

NotePadLX 0.7

New

• Printing: File › Print… (Ctrl+P) opens the print dialog (all pages, a page range, or the selection; print to a PDF file too), and Print Now prints to the default printer. The headers, footers, fonts, margins, line numbers, colour mode and form-feed page breaks of Settings › Preferences › Print are used, with the variables $(FILE_NAME), $(CURRENT_PRINTING_PAGE), $(SHORT_DATE), $(LONG_DATE), $(TIME) and more.
• Incremental Search (Ctrl+Alt+I): a bar that searches as you type, with Match case, Highlight all and a match count ("2/3"); Enter / Shift+Enter go to the next / previous match, and the bar can sit at the top or the bottom.
• Tab colours: View › Tab › Apply Color 1–5 / Remove Color, also in the tab's right-click menu. The colours are kept in sessions and shown in the Document List. The Search › Mark style menu items now show their colours too.
• File › Load Session… / Save Session…, with the session extension of Preferences › MISC and the "Save Folder as Workspace" option.
• Search › Find characters in range…
• Settings › Import › Import style theme(s)… and Settings › Edit Popup ContextMenu

Downloads

File	For
NotePadLX-0.7-x86_64.AppImage	Any x86_64 distribution with glibc 2.43+: chmod +x and run
notepadlx_0.7_amd64.deb	Ubuntu 26.04 (Qt 6.10): sudo apt install ./notepadlx_0.7_amd64.deb
SHA256SUMS	Checksums

NotePadLX 0.6

NotePadLX 0.6

New: Settings › Preferences

All 23 pages of the Notepad++ Preferences, with the Notepad++ layout. Changes apply immediately and are saved in config.xml.

• Tab Bar: hide, vertical tabs, reduced size, lock (no drag and drop), coloured bar on the active tab, inactive tab colour, close buttons on the active tab or all tabs, double click to close, alternate icons
• Toolbar: small or large icons, bold variants, and the Fluent colours (red, green, blue, purple, cyan, olive, yellow, accent, custom), on the whole icon or its accents
• Dark Mode: light, dark, or follow the desktop; the colour tones and custom colours. Switching mode also switches the editor theme
• General: hide the menu bar (Alt or F10 shows it) or the status bar
• Editing, Margins/Border/Edge: caret width and blink rate, current line highlight or frame, wrap indent, virtual space, multi-editing, EOL and non-printing character display, fold margin style, line numbers, vertical edges, padding, change history
• Language: disabled languages are hidden from the Language menu
• Default Directory: Open and Save As start in the current file's folder, the last folder used, or a folder you choose
• Indentation per language, Highlighting, Auto-Completion, Backup, Recent Files History, Searching, Delimiter, Multi-Instance & Date, Performance, Cloud & Link, Search Engine (also Edit › On Selection › Change Search Engine…), MISC.

Not available yet (greyed out, with a tooltip): pinned tabs, multi-line tab bar, system tray, document peeker. The interface language takes effect at the next start. Print settings are saved; printing comes later.

Improved

• Find dialog: the Find, Replace, Find in Files, Find in Projects and Mark tabs share one layout: the window keeps its size and the fields, options and buttons stay in place when you switch tabs.

Downloads

File	For
NotePadLX-0.6-x86_64.AppImage	Any x86_64 distribution with glibc 2.43+: chmod +x and run
notepadlx_0.6_amd64.deb	Ubuntu 26.04 (Qt 6.10): sudo apt install ./notepadlx_0.6_amd64.deb
SHA256SUMS	Checksums

NotePadLX 0.5

NotePadLX 0.5

Fixed

• The Ctrl+letter editor keys work. Duplicate Line (Ctrl+D), Cut Line (Ctrl+L), Delete Line (Ctrl+Shift+L), Select All (Ctrl+A), Copy / Cut / Paste (Ctrl+C/X/V) and Undo / Redo (Ctrl+Z/Y) did nothing when pressed on a real keyboard. A real key press carries a control character (Ctrl+D = \x04), and the filter that keeps control characters out of the text swallowed the whole key press. Now only the character is dropped and the key still runs its command. The tests now send the same text a real keyboard does.

Downloads

File	For
NotePadLX-0.5-x86_64.AppImage	Any x86_64 distribution with glibc 2.43+: chmod +x and run
notepadlx_0.5_amd64.deb	Ubuntu 26.04 (Qt 6.10): sudo apt install ./notepadlx_0.5_amd64.deb
SHA256SUMS	Checksums

NotePadLX 0.4

NotePadLX 0.4

Fixed

• The caret blinks at the start of a line. The editor's first pixel column of text was never painted (Scintilla's Qt client area started 1 pixel right of the margins), so a caret there stayed on the screen. The client area now starts at 0,0, as on Windows.

Downloads

File	For
NotePadLX-0.4-x86_64.AppImage	Any x86_64 distribution with glibc 2.43+: chmod +x and run
notepadlx_0.4_amd64.deb	Ubuntu 26.04 (Qt 6.10): sudo apt install ./notepadlx_0.4_amd64.deb
SHA256SUMS	Checksums

NotePadLX 0.3

NotePadLX 0.3

New

• ? › Check for Updates… checks GitHub for the latest NotePadLX release and offers its download page
• A new About box (the old one cut its text), Debug Info… with your system details, Command Line Arguments…
• View › Toggle Full Screen Mode (F11), Post-It (F12) and Distraction Free Mode
• Edit › Paste Special: Paste HTML / RTF Content, Copy / Cut / Paste Binary Content
• Edit › On Selection: Open File, Open Containing Folder in File Manager, Redact Selection (█, or ● with Shift)
• Google Search (Alt+F2) in the default Run menu

Keys

Every Notepad++ default key is checked automatically: 189 menu, editor, macro and Run command keys, pressed in the real window. Duplicate line is Ctrl+D; the case commands (Ctrl+U, Ctrl+Shift+U…) need a selection, as in Notepad++. Still to come: Print (Ctrl+P) and Incremental Search (Ctrl+Alt+I).

Downloads

File	For
NotePadLX-0.3-x86_64.AppImage	Any x86_64 distribution with glibc 2.43+: chmod +x and run
notepadlx_0.3_amd64.deb	Ubuntu 26.04 (Qt 6.10): sudo apt install ./notepadlx_0.3_amd64.deb
SHA256SUMS	Checksums