Documentation

Matchbox Manual

The Matchbox user manual explains the usage of the core Matchbox modules including the window manager, panel and desktop. It is available in the following formats:

• Html, Browsable online.
• Html.tar.gz, Downloadable gzipped tarball.

Matchbox Developer Documentation

The following infomation for developers is available:

• Designing Matchbox Themes HOWTO.
  Provides infomation on creating your own matchbox themes to modify visual appearence.
• Infomation on testing matchbox.
  Provides infomation on using the matchbox-test suite. matchbox.pdf
• Matchbox Client communication specifics. and PDF diagram.
  Details Matchbox standards implementations and extensions.
• LibMB API Documentation
  Doxygen generated API documentation.
• Notes on the internals and code structure of the matchbox window manager. Also available, an associated diagram.

Other Documentation

For a descriptive overview of Matchbox explaining its features and requirements read the 'Matchbox overview.

A (188k) PDF of the paper 'Matchbox: window management not for the desktop' for Usenix 2003 is available for download.

matchbox-documentation in SVN repo contains the very latest docbook source of the matchbox documentation.