Skippy (X)

Skippy (X)

Skippy is a window management tool for X11 similar to Mac OS X's Exposé feature. It allows a user to quickly see open windows by two different sets of criteria, or to hide all windows and show the desktop without the need to click through many windows to find a specific target.

Usage

Skippy needs to be compiled and installed from source. After is launched, the default hotkey is F11. Then choose a window with either the keyboard (you can use up, down, left and right to navigate) or the mouse (just hover over a window) and activate it by pressing the left mouse button or the return or spacebar key.

There are also two or three modifiers you can use with the hotkey: hold Control and Skippy (not used in Skippy-XD) will update the snapshots of all the windows. Hold Mod1 (aka the alt key) and skippy will only show the windows of the currently focused window's window group (like, all of gimp's windows, or all of kopete's windows), and if Skippy or Skippy-XD is compiled with Xinerama support and you have several heads, hold shift while pressing the hotkey to make it show the windows on all heads.

Clones

A similar features project is Komposé, an Exposé clone for KDE, and Compiz, which contains built-in Exposé functionality which can be activated by pressing F12.

ee also

* Dashboard
* Taskbar
* Konfabulator
* Zooming User Interface

External links

* [http://thegraveyard.org/skippy.php Skippy Home Page]
* [http://freshmeat.net/projects/skippy/ Skippy's freshmeat project page]
* [http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=12724 Skippy on KDE-Look.org]


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