closing apps rather than leaving them running (phosh)

[kqlnut]

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).