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Janus 0.9.8

Simple text editor

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About Janus

Janus is a simple, native linux text editor. Supports UTF-8 and binary data through its fallback binary editing mode. Spiritual successor to leafpad. Intended to be as small and efficient as possible, trading features for a smaller impact on cpu.

Features include:

• Undo/redo

• Similar keybinds to other text editors (e.g. leafpad)

• Spanish/French/German Translations

• Printing capabilities

• Optional syntax highlighting

• Fallback binary editing

• GVFS connectivity

License: GPL-3.0-only
Release info New Release on Aug 20, 2026
Release notes Major changes:

• Rpm build added

• AppImage, rpm, and deb packages now available as arm64

Minor changes:

• Search settings persistent during a session

• Dutch translations added

• Auditable builds via GitHub Actions

• Metainfo translations added

• Listed on appimagehub

• AppImage using fuse 3, signed

• AppImage now twice as small 2 MB => 1 MB

• Flatpak over 1 MB smaller as well

• 4 new languages supported by syntax highlighting: Lean, SPICE, STAR, Terraform
Related tags plaintext notepad leafpad
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