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Matchbox (window manager)

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Original author(s)
  
Matthew Allum

Available in
  
C

Operating system
  
Linux

Developer(s)
  
OpenedHand, Yocto Project

Initial release
  
April 13, 2007; 9 years ago (2007-04-13)

Stable release
  
2 / April 9, 2012; 4 years ago (2012-04-09)

Matchbox is a free and open source window manager for the X Window System. It is mainly intended for embedded systems and differs from most other window managers in that it only shows one window at a time. It is used by Maemo on Nokia Internet Tablets, the Neo 1973 smartphone based on Openmoko, the Vernier LabQuest handheld data acquisition device for science education, as well as on the XO-1 of the One Laptop Per Child Project. It has been replaced on later OLPC software builds by Metacity.

Matchbox 2

Matchbox Window Manager II is a complete rewrite of the original m-w-m. It is in early stages of development.

  • git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/matchbox-window-manager-2/

    • References

    Matchbox (window manager) Wikipedia
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