SKIPPY-XD(1)

NAME
skippy-xd - Full-screen Exposé-style standalone task switcher for X11.

SYNOPSIS
skippy-xd

DESCRIPTION
SKIPPY-XD is a full-screen task-switcher for X11. You know that thing Mac OS X, Compiz and KWin do where you press a hotkey and suddenly you see miniature versions of all your windows at once? Skippy-XD does just that. It's most commonly known by Mac OS X's name for it - Exposé.

However, sometimes skippy won't activate properly. This can either be because it launches too quickly, and receives the last Return key press event, that was used to launch it by. Or because when bound to a global key binding, and when the key is being held down. Then the key repeats and skippy will be activated far too much, causing the daemon to lock up. Because it is getting many more requests than it can actually handle. Over it's simple FIFO buffer loop.

To try to address those kinds of problems, we now include the wrapper script `skippy-xd-runner`. However it is not an ideal solution and introduces new problems of it's own. Ideally we should prefer to upgrade or replace the FIFO queue (file socket) / polling of `read()`. With someting a bit less dumb.

Anyhow, for the time being `skippy-xd-runner` is a useful safeguard. To prevent lockups of your window manager (or whatever your parent process) that is activating skippy. Those types of background usage / invokation of skippy are discussed in more detail in the next sections.

SEE ALSO
https://github.com/HuayraLinux/pkg-skippy-xd

https://github.com/dreamcat4/skippy-xd

AUTHOR
Este manual ha sido escrito por Fernando Toledo <ragnarok@docksud.com.ar>, para Huayra GNU/Linux (pero puede ser utilizado por otros).