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Matchbox -- a Small Footprint Window Manager

Posted by michael on from the hunt-and-peck dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In this technical article at LinuxDevices.com, Matchbox project leader Matthew Allum introduces his creation Matchbox: a small footprint window manager for PDAs and other resource-constrained embedded devices. Allum recalls why he decided to embark on the project, outlines its key objectives, describes its architecture and unique characteristics, and ponders its future. Cool piece of software; good read."

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  1. Hm by zapfie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    With the extremely limited real estate on small devices, why use standard window controls (title bar, close box, etc.) which take up space? I would think it would make more sense to have an application take up the whole screen, and provide some space-friendly way to switch between them.

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  2. Re:Low footprint and X by batkiwi · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There's no greater feeling than firing up an IPAQ running X, ssh'ing to my power-machine with x-tunneling set up, then loading up mozilla/codeguide/gimp/other resource intensive program, and having it respond like a dream.

    I actually see a need for it MORE on a tiny device, especially with wireless network adapters for IPAQs.