Skippy-xd

Jul 20, 2023

Full-screen Expose-style standalone task switcher for X11

Skippy-XD is a version of Skippy that uses Xserver’s XDamage, XComposite and XFixes extensions to provide you with ‘live’ versions of the windows.

Skippy-XD is best described as a full-screen task-switcher for X11. It tries to provide an alternative when taskbars or regular task-switchers aren’t the most efficient way of switching tasks like when you have a lot of applications open When activated currently only through a hotkey, it will arrange and scale snapshots of all windows on the current desktop and it’ll let you pick a window using a mouse or a keyboard. Yes, this is also what expocity and Apple’s Expose.



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