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Offline yonnie

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Why skippy?
« on: January 30, 2013, 09:19:34 PM »
I installed a fresh copy of LXDE and it has they typical workspace pager plus a non-functional skippy-xd.  Why?

Also, if we already have a nice functional workspace pager, and skippy is also a pager, why two pagers?  Whatś the point?

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Re: Why skippy?
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2013, 09:22:29 PM »
Wait,, what  ???


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Re: Why skippy?
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2013, 10:19:11 PM »
I'm with Rudge on this one... skippy?  What is this skippy of which you speak?

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Re: Why skippy?
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2013, 10:44:54 PM »
Skippy

Skippy is what (I think) is best described as a full-screen task-switcher for X11. The project 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 do (yeah, I know, Expose does more than just this), but I don't like metacity (expocity is a 'hacked up' version of that) and I don't have a Mac.


But don't we already have something like this already ???  If I put the cursor to the top left corner of the screen this is what I see on my laptop.





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Re: Why skippy?
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2013, 11:41:11 PM »
Are we still talking about LXDE?

I know what "Skippy" is, I just didn't know it came with LXDE.


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Re: Why skippy?
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2013, 06:44:24 AM »
Are we still talking about LXDE?

I know what "Skippy" is, I just didn't know it came with LXDE.


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Re: Why skippy?
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2013, 11:10:59 AM »
I installed a fresh copy of LXDE and it has they typical workspace pager plus a non-functional skippy-xd.  Why?

Also, if we already have a nice functional workspace pager, and skippy is also a pager, why two pagers?  Whatś the point?


Then you are the first with this issues..., because in my iso is only skippy-xd installed.
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rpm -qa | grep skippy
skippy-xd-0.5.1-2leiche2013
Works for me without any issues.

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Re: Why skippy?
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2013, 10:59:45 PM »
yonnie  skippy works fine.
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Re: Why skippy?
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2013, 11:03:06 AM »
An picture what skippy-xd do



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Re: Why skippy?
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2013, 12:49:36 PM »
So... it basically makes LXDE more like KDE?  :P  <ducks>

Seriously, this looks like a nice feature.  Thanks for the info!

It's looking like, from what I can see, that a keysym = line is missing from my ~/.config/skippy-xd.rc after install and copying of the default per the instruction in Synaptic.  Yonnie, you might want to look at that...  there are instructions in Synaptic that should be followed to set up the application, and there may be some info missing in the default file?

I'll have to log out and back in to test this fully, so I'll jot back in a minute...

Um... yeah.  I don't seem to be able to get this to work other than from, say, a desktop shortcut?  Is there a difference between how other distros might configure the hotkey and how it's done for PCLinuxOS?  Do we, for instance, need to assign a keybinding in another utility somewhere?  (Maybe xbindkeys?)

UPDATE:  It looks like xbindkeys is certainly one way of solving this.  I added the following stanza in my ~/.xbindkeysrc file:
Code: [Select]
"skippy-xd"
  control+shift + v

The two spaces before the second line are probably important...  Look in your .xbindkeysrc for pointers on where to find a list of keysyms that it recognizes and how to specify them.

Now, if I want to see skippy-xd in action, I issue the key sequence Ctrl-Shift v.  It works.

Only one thing now: it only shows windows on one desktop.  Three forward, two backward, I suppose.  Hope this helps you out, Yonnie.

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« Last Edit: February 12, 2013, 07:14:22 PM by horusfalcon »
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Re: Why skippy?
« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2013, 05:10:12 AM »
Sorry read now your edit...
Skippy-xd has an desktop-file under start > More Applications > Monitoring > shows, and list open windows

see here my little video about it
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Hope it clears some questions

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