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FedoraNEWS: HOWTO: Building Skippy RPM package for Fedora Core

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 8, 2004

[ Thanks to Thomas
Chung
for this link. ]

“Skippy 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. It’s very similar to
Apple’s Expose.

“In this article, I’ll be using skippy version 0.5.0 on Fedora
Core 2 as an example and you will find pre-compiled RPM packages
for FC1 and FC2 at the bottom this article…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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