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Good news for all XFCE fans + users, after a long time a new version of mousepad is out and it has undergone a complete rewrite. You can read more about that on XFCE website.
By default when a single file is opened using mousepad it doesn't show tabs, however if you do want tabs by default there is a way to do it:
1- Go to ~/.config/Mousepad/

$ cd ~/.config/Mousepad/

2- Open mousepadrc file

 $ vim ~/.config/Mousepad/mousepadrc

3- search for MiscAlwaysShowTab and change its value from false to true

 MiscAlwaysShowTab=true

4- if mousepad is open, close it and then restart the app.
You should see tabs ! :-)

I am fairly satisfied with the setup I have right now in my Arch Linux running XFCE.
The Arch Linux as you might know is DIY Linux distro. I eventually settled for XFCE after a lot of DE hopping.

I started off with Gnome 3, but couldn't put up with it for more than a week. I know I had posted about how I actually thought I liked Gnome 3 but it turns out I don't like it.

I then gave KDE a shot and I must it was really nice. I liked it way better than Gnome 3. But for it kinda felt a bit slow and kinda of laggy. I didn't have a very smooth experience.

Then I gave Xmonad a shot. While it is on my list of preferred WM. It consumes way too much time to configure stuff so that it is everyday usable.

Finally and Thankfully I landed my foot on XFCE. Not only is lightweight its also fast and configurable. If you ended up installing XFCE on Arch Linux you would certainly want to configure/tweak it because as it is, it doesn't look good. At least I didn't find it appealing. The default font for the terminal and the windows are not everyday usable.

If you stare at the Sans font for a while I am sure you would want to restart and go back to Windows 7.
I must tell you even though I haven't completely tweaked my XFCE, figuring out the font to use took a hell lot of time. And eventually I settled for Inconsolata-g font for the Terminal(I would certainly recommend checking out this font). I really like it and in my opinion it is best suited for the terminal.

For the Windows and overall System I settled for Free Sans.

The next part was figuring the applications, and since I am still in the process of figuring out the best applications to run on XFCE I will postpone it for another post.