closing apps rather than leaving them running (phosh)

[parry]

Has anyone managed to actually close apps rather than leaving them running on phosh?

Ie. if you open an app (say "settings") then the only option is to minimise it and have it sitting in the home screen, which then moves all the other app icons to a lower position in the home screen

I understand that it is useful to be able to have a few applications open for ease of multi-tasking, but is there a way to force stop an app so it does not sit on the home screen after it has been opened?

You can swipe the window up to close it while you are in the overview. Some apps will keep running in the background though, so if you want to make sure the app closes completely instead of just closing the window, you would have to kill the process in the terminal (e.g. with "pkill $app" where $app is the name of the app's command).

I was quite surprised to find that there was no apparent way of exiting say a Settings attempt etc without  killing the process. At least manjaro plasma has a setting for this.  Or perhaps I don't understand something about manjaro phosh. I continue to be, shall we say, a little surprised at the lack of fundamental functionality with some of these platforms. Are we, the people who paid for these phones, the community that is supposed to fix these issues ? Could some kind person please explain this business model, exactly what we as customers and community of the platform should expect. De minimis  shouldn't the originators compile a list of known issues that they know of ?  The git repos dont contain this information.  Look I am not trying to be a pain, just can someone explain what we should expect when we put our hard-earned funds down for a device that we hope will provide us some privacy. I truly don't understand the statements that (I paraphrase) "you better know linux before you buy this phone" and how that maps to a environment where truly basic functionality like screen brightness, being able to switch off or exit an application is not available.  Please target all invective at me as long as you provide the answers. Thanks, parry