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Matchbox is a free and open source window manager for the X Window System.

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 being used in the 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 laptop of the One Laptop Per Child Project.

It has been replaced on later OLPC software builds by Metacity.

Screenshots.

Screenshots showing Matchbox window manager, panel and desktop running on a 240x320 PDA in a default 'vanilla' configuration and simple applications.



The default Matchbox theme.



On the fly theme changing of all matchbox components.



Non western text rendering via optional Pango support.



Various panels in various configurations.

Device Shots

Matchbox window manager is featured as part of the Maemo platform as used on the Nokia 770 and N800. Nokia funded numerous open source generic inprovements to Matchbox as to better fit Maemo's user interface requirements.



Various window types



Software input mechansim support.

The innovative Sugar UI used on the OLPC XO uses Matchbox for window management in a pretty unique way.



A video of the Sugar UI in action is available here.

The Vernier Labquest using the window manager and customised matchbox-panel-1 and applets




Matchbox window manager and keyboard running with GNOME ( including the GNOME panel and Nautilus desktop ) on a Sony U71 UMPC with Ubuntu Linux.





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