[spindle]

There are 10,625,322,952,242,003,625 launcher programs, many of which are minimalist. Personally, I like this one: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.vincent_falzon.discreetl...

[mattymf]

Thanks, I now know these are called 'launchers'. I'm now using the Before Launcher [0]. It is pretty much what I want.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beforesoft...