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May we have skippy-xd for MX19? It was packaged for MX17/18.

It enables a windows overview of all opened windows.

This was the MX17/18 package request: https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 89#p459289

In the light of the compiz issues in MX19, this would be a good one to have for people like me who frankly only need* compiz for the overview functionality.



*"need" is not the same as "would like to have just because it's cool!"

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 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.

That's why I posted the link to my earlier post. It hasn't been officially maintained for a while, but works in Manjaro and Solus because the relevant packagers recompiled it against libpng1.6. I use it regularly in both these distros with Budgie Desktop. Manjaro must be gtk 3.32 to 3.34 by now.

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: 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.

Works! No need for daemon starting.

I just added the window picker command to a panel launcher, keyboard shortcut, and also set bunsenlab's hotcorner script to trigger the command at the top left corner.



https://imgur.com/OVOc5bl

Minimised windows show up as all-blue, which is usual for skippy.

Thanks, Tim.

Are there detailed instructions to get this running? Is the old wiki article still valid?

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

The old wiki article is still valid but I just updated it to correct formatting errors.

Plus I updated the sample bl-hotcorners config file to add the skippy-xd command within.

https://mxlinux.org/wiki/applications/hotcorner/

[ADDED]
Oh yes, a poster provided very helpful instructions in a reply to my wiki post, on how to tweak the bunsenlabs python script to make it more responsive.

errors running terminal command.

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

Did you install the 4 packages that are required? MX19 does not come with python-xlib as default.

I did. There is also a python3-xlib. I installed the python-xlib and the other pacakges mentioned.