Home is the grid your Home button lands on, plus a dock that stays put across every page.
Moving things around
Long-press an item and drag it. That is the whole gesture — there is no separate “edit mode” to enter first.
Two things happen while you drag that are worth knowing about:
Crowded spots make room. Hold a drag over an occupied area for a moment and Toolrack shuffles what is in the way rather than refusing the drop.
Screen edges turn pages. Drag to the left or right edge and hold, and Home flips to the next page. If you are already on the last page, it creates a new one to drop into.
Dragging apps in from the drawer
You do not have to close the App Drawer first. Long-press an app in the drawer and pull — the drawer slides away and leaves you holding the icon over Home, ready to drop.
Hold without pulling and you get the long-press menu instead, so the same gesture serves both.
Folders
Drop one app onto another and they become a folder.
- Dropping a further app onto a folder adds it.
- Tapping a folder opens it as a grid you can scroll.
- Tapping the folder’s name renames it.
- The pencil icon in the folder’s header reveals a drag handle on each app, so reordering never competes with tapping one to launch it.
Emptying a folder unwinds it: take out all but one app and the folder collapses back into that plain app; remove the last one and the cell clears. There is no separate “delete folder” — emptying it is how you get rid of it.
Widgets
Any Android widget can go on the Home grid, and resizable ones get drag handles when you long-press them. The handles respect the widget’s own minimum and maximum size, so you cannot squash one into a shape it does not support.
Widgets that cannot be resized get the normal long-press menu instead.
Full detail, including Toolrack’s own built-in widgets, is in Dash and widgets.
Pages
Home starts as a single page and grows when you need it — drag something to the edge of the last page and a new one appears.
A page indicator sits below the grid, in either dots or lines style (Settings › Homescreen › Page indicator). It is hidden entirely when you only have one page, since there is nothing to indicate.
Sizing the grid
Under Settings › Homescreen:
| Setting | Range (phone) | Range (tablet) | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home rows | 3–6 | 3–8 | 6 |
| Home columns | 3–6 | 4–10 | 4 on a phone, 8 on a tablet |
| Dock columns | 4–5 | 4–8 | 4 on a phone, 5 on a tablet |
On a tablet the grid starts wider, and the dock keeps its icons together in the middle rather than spreading them to the far edges of the screen.
Shrinking a grid does not throw anything away. Items that no longer fit are reflowed into the space that remains, so going from six columns down to three rearranges your layout rather than deleting half of it.
Locking the layout
Once Home is how you want it, Settings › Homescreen › Lock home screen freezes it.
Locked, everything still works — apps and folders open on tap, widgets keep taking their own button presses — but nothing can be moved, resized, removed, or added. Dropping an app from the drawer onto Home is refused too, and the item returns where it came from.
This changes nothing about the stored layout. Unlocking gives you back exactly the arrangement you froze.
The dock is locked by the same switch; it is part of the Home surface, and a lock that left the dock editable would be an odd place to draw the line.
The dock
The dock sits below the grid and does not scroll with the pages. It holds apps and folders the same way the grid does, and it can also appear on Dash — Settings › Dash configuration › Show dock on Dash.