Skippy (X)

Skippy-xd is a lightweight, customizable, window-manager-agnostic composite window selector for X11. It provides live-preview alt-tab window switching, a fullscreen Exposé-style window overview, and a paging mode for an overview of all virtual desktops. Additional features include animation and live preview of minimized windows. Skippy-xd works with any X11-based window manager.

Usage Skippy-xd runs as a daemon and is invoked via command-line arguments. After starting the daemon with skippy-xd --start-daemon, it can be activated in different modes:

skippy-xd --switch --next — alt-tab style window switching with live preview skippy-xd --expose — fullscreen Exposé-style overview of all windows skippy-xd --paging — overview of all virtual desktops at once

Users typically bind these commands to keyboard shortcuts using a tool such as xbindkeys or their window manager's keybind configuration.

Clones Projects with similar features include Komposé (an Exposé clone for KDE3, now abandoned) and Compiz, the latter containing built-in Exposé-style functionality activated by pressing F12. Modern KDE Plasma includes similar functionality natively via KWin.

Skippy (X)

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