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Antartica · 10-15-2007, 03:55 AM

The problem lies within the window manager. If you want to have multiple exported windows at once, I think that the best approach would be:

a) Change the behaviour of matchbox if it's possible. It's time to try the options in http://matchbox-project.org/document...manual/wm.html
(killing matchbox and re-starting it with "-use-desktop-mode decorated" seems a good starting point).

b) compile and use another window manager. Of the extremely lightweight I would try "ahwm" (somewhat unfinished, unstable, but does its job) and "pwm" (requires configuration if you're not fond of focus-follows-mouse behavior). The pity for both of them is that as they don't have close button in titlebars, you cannot close windows using the stylus.

Hope that helps ;-)

10-15-2007, 03:55 AM	#6
Antartica Evangelist Posts: 423 Karma: 1517132 Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Madrid, Spain Device: quaderno, remarkable2, yotaphone2, prs950, iliad, onhandpc, newton	The problem lies within the window manager. If you want to have multiple exported windows at once, I think that the best approach would be: a) Change the behaviour of matchbox if it's possible. It's time to try the options in http://matchbox-project.org/document...manual/wm.html (killing matchbox and re-starting it with "-use-desktop-mode decorated" seems a good starting point). b) compile and use another window manager. Of the extremely lightweight I would try "ahwm" (somewhat unfinished, unstable, but does its job) and "pwm" (requires configuration if you're not fond of focus-follows-mouse behavior). The pity for both of them is that as they don't have close button in titlebars, you cannot close windows using the stylus. Hope that helps ;-)