Skippy

Tom von Schwerdtner tomvons at gmail.com
Fri Nov 19 13:28:11 CST 2004


On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:34:54 +0000 (GMT), Paul Sladen
<ubuntu at paul.sladen.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, sumanjay wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > I've tried Skippy on a Gentoo PPC system. Works beautifully! Who do you
> > petition to get it into the repositories?
> 
> Perhaps you could say a little more about what it is, where to download it,
> how it integrates and whether it's already packaged and in the Debian
> archive?
> 
> Having Googled(tm), I found:
> 
>   http://thegraveyard.org/skippy.php
> 
> which appears to be a separate program providing Expocity/ Apple Expose
> like, zoom-out-and-scale-windows style task-switching.

Just tried the Imlib2 version and it works fairly well, worth
including in universe IMO.  The XDamage version is hella slow here,
but I guess anything related to newfangled Xorg bits has a ways to
go...that and I'm on a 1.3ghz laptop.

-Tom

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