Thread: iLiad multitasking?
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Old 08-01-2008, 05:59 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by joblack View Post
Sure there is a display manager (there is almost always one)..
In the case of the iliad, the window manager is "matchbox". It has been configured so that it doesn't show titlebars; if you enable them, in the top-left icon of the window titlebar, matchbox shows a list of the running applications.

Tested alternatives:

Yokos has successfully used fluxbox instead of matchbox for having several applications opened at once:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20620

Untested alternatives:

See post #4 of this thread
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10410

In the start.sh script, if you change the " -use_titlebar no " to " -use_titlebar yes ", you should have the matchbox titlebar for full-screen apps, including ipdf. Alas, modifying start.sh is very dangerous (you can make you iliad incapable of booting, so you should double-check that you can reflash from CF before attempting this).
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