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.