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timkb4cq wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2019 3:04 pm Skippy-xd hasn't been maintained for quite a while.
I rebuilt it for MX-19 and placed it in the Test repo. Not sure how to work it so I'm relying on you to tell me if it still works.

timkb4cq wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2019 4:32 pm OK, following the directions in the old thread work on MX-19 in VBox - except they leave out the part where you have to start the daemon before the window picker will work.
Please try the skippy-xd package in MX-19 Test and report back.

richb wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2019 6:30 am Are there detailed instructions to get this running? Is the old wiki article still valid?

richb wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2019 7:31 am errors running terminal command.

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bl-hotcorners –daemon &
[1] 19427
from: can't read /var/mail/Xlib
from: can't read /var/mail/Xlib.ext.xtest
from: can't read /var/mail/Xlib

richb wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2019 7:54 am I have run it several times with the same error. It cannot find the /var/mail/Xlib file because it does not exist. There is only a n empty richb file in /var/mail. Can you check your /var/mail folder and see what is in it?

richb wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2019 8:03 am Found one problem. There was an empty line at the top of the script copied from GitHub. Now I get a different error. Ran this twice as well

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bl-hotcorners: error: unrecognized arguments: –daemon

richb wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2019 8:19 am Apparently the script does not run. The $HOME/.config/bl-hotcorners/bl-hotcornersrc folder/file is not created as the wiki indicates it should.

asqwerth wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2019 8:23 am

richb wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2019 8:19 am Apparently the script does not run. The $HOME/.config/bl-hotcorners/bl-hotcornersrc folder/file is not created as the wiki indicates it should.

Did you make the script executable?

asqwerth wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2019 9:08 am I do intend, when I replace my second MX15 installation with MX19, to have that one use compiz.

catalinux wrote: Wed May 27, 2020 3:42 pm On the screenshot posted by asqwerth I can see the windows themselves are no longer minimized when launching skippy-xd, rather the overview is shown as an overlay above them (I also tried in a live MX 19 environment and I had the same behaviour). Has anyone found a way to show only the previews upon launching skippy-xd like on MX-18? or it's simply a bug that needs fixed upstream on skippy-xd itself?

# Copy this to ~/.config/skippy-xd/skippy-xd.rc and edit it to your liking
#
# Notes:
#
# - colors can be anything XAllocNamedColor can handle
#   (like "black" or "#000000")
#
# - distance is a relative number, and is scaled according to the scale
#   factor applied to windows
#
# - fonts are Xft font descriptions
#
# - booleans are "true" or anything but "true" (-> false)
#
# - opacity is an integer in the range of 0-255
#
# - brighness is a floating point number (with 0.0 as neutral)
#
# - if the update frequency is a negative value, the mini-windows will only
#   be updated when they're explicitly rendered (like, when they gain or
#   lose focus).
#
# - the 'shadowText' option can be a color or 'none', in which case the
#   drop-shadow effect is disabled
#
# - Picture specification:
#   [WIDTHxHEIGHT] [orig|scale|scalek|tile] [left|mid|right] [left|mid|right]
#   [COLOR|#FFFFFFFF] [PATH]
#
#   Examples:
#   background = 500x400 tile right mid #FF0000 /home/richard/screenshots/256.png
#   background = orig mid mid #FF000080
#
# - Bindings in [bindings] section can bind to "no" (do nothing), "focus"
#   (focus to window), "iconify", "shade-ewmh" (toggle window shade state),
#   "close-icccm" (close window with ICCCM method), "close-ewmh" (close
#   window with EWMH method), or "destroy" (forcefully destroy the window).
#

[general]
distance = 50
useNetWMFullscreen = true
ignoreSkipTaskbar = true
updateFreq = 10.0
lazyTrans = false
pipePath = /tmp/skippy-xd-fifo
movePointerOnStart = true
movePointerOnSelect = true
movePointerOnRaise = true
switchDesktopOnActivate = false
useNameWindowPixmap = false
forceNameWindowPixmap = false
includeFrame = true
allowUpscale = true
showAllDesktops = true
showUnmapped = true
preferredIconSize = 96
clientDisplayModes = thumbnail icon filled none
iconFillSpec = orig mid mid #909090
fillSpec = orig mid mid #FFFFFF
background = scale #333333

[xinerama]
showAll = true

[normal]
tint = black
tintOpacity = 0
opacity = 200

[highlight]
tint = #444444
tintOpacity = 64
opacity = 255

[tooltip]
show = true
followsMouse = true
offsetX = 20
offsetY = 30
align = mid
border = #4A4A4A
background = #4A4A4A
opacity = 128
text = #ffffff
textShadow = none
# font = fixed-11:weight=bold
font = fixed-12

[bindings]
miwMouse1 = focus
miwMouse2 = close-ewmh
miwMouse3 = iconify

background = scale #333333

background = scale filepath-of-the-picture

asqwerth wrote: Wed May 27, 2020 4:19 pm [OK, maybe the "bug" is that the config file to be found in /etc/xdg was not included as part of the skippy-xd package? ]

timkb4cq wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2019 4:32 pm OK, following the directions in the old thread work on MX-19 in VBox - except they leave out the part where you have to start the daemon before the window picker will work.
Please try the skippy-xd package in MX-19 Test and report back.

timkb4cq wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 4:53 pm It already includes the same exact /etc/xdg/skippy-xd.rc file that is in the MX-17/18 package.

asqwerth wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2020 8:38 am In MX17/18 that gives you the windows overview set against the current wallpaper on the desktop.

In MX19, if background is not defined, you get a visual of the ACTUAL desktop, meaning you see the wallpaper PLUS all the opened windows on it. It makes the windows overview hard to see clearly because the smaller windows of the overview are set against the confusing background that includes the actual windows themselves.