Working with the Skippy Screen Pager
WINDOW PREVIEWS
If your window manager is too boring or Spartan for your liking, why not add a touch of pep? Skippy is an imaginative screen pager with an integrated preview function.
Almost any window manager will
give you a window list, displaying
a menu with the active windows
when you click or press the right
key. If the programmer who developed
the window manager has a soft spot for
graphical gimmicks, the list might add
icons to the program names. But a window
chooser will not speed up the
process of switching between windows
if you are working with a selection of
different browsers and terminal windows.
Skippy [1] by Hyriand to the rescue:
instead of giving you a simple list,
Skippy displays the active application
windows graphically in full-screen
mode.
Sophisticated
Window managers have different
approaches to handling active windows,
and Skippy is choosy about the managers
it supports. To ensure that you will
be able to switch between GUI-based
programs, you need a Gnome- or
NetWM-compatible window manager,
such as Waimea. The homepage for the
window manager or a quick glance at
the Readme file supplied with the manager
should tell you if this is the case.
Also, the Skippy developers have a list of
window managers that Skippy supports
on the project homepage. Supported
managers include Fluxbox 0.9.9,
XFWM4 icewm and WindowMaker.
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