skippyrc - Configuration file for skippy, a Full Screen Task Switcher for X11

skippy is a program that allows you to manage your windows in an efficient way. It is highly inspired by Apple Expose.

~/.skippyrc is its configuration file.

for each SECTION (see below), you can define the following variables:

keysym can be anything XStringToKeysym can handle (like F11, KP_Enter or implementation specific keysyms)

colors can be anything XAllocNamedColor can handle (like "black" or "#000000")

distance a relative number, and is scaled according to the scale factor applied to windows

fonts Xft font descriptions

booleans "true" or anything but "true" (-> false)

opacity integer in the range of 0-255

brightness floating point number (with 0.0 as neutral)

[general]

General skippy behaviour.

keysym

Keyboard symbol to use, default: F11.

distance

Distance between mini-windows, default: 50

useNETWMFullscreen

Use NETWM fullscreen mode if available, default: true

ignoreSkipTaskbar

Ignore the skip taskbar hint, default: false

viewports

Use experimental extended viewport support, default: false

sawfish

Use expermental sawfish support, default: false

autoRefresh

Auto refresh all mini-windows after n seconds, default: 0 (never) [xinerama]

Xinerama specific skippy behaviour.

showAll

Show windows on all heads, default: false [normal]

Color brightness and opacity settings.

brightness

Brightness adjustment, default: 0.0

tint

Tint color, default: white

opacity

Opacity (0-255), default: 200

border

Border color, default: black [highlight]

Highlight settings.

brightness

Brightness adjustment, default: 0.05

tint

Tint color, default: #d0d0ff

opacity

Opacity (0-255), default: 255

border

Border color, default: #d0d0ff [tooltip]

Tooltips settings.

show

Show tool, default: true

border

Tooltip border color, default: black

background Tooltip background color, default: #e0e0ff

text Tooltip text color, default: black

font Tooltip font, default: fixed-11:weight=bold

In Debian you can find a copy of the default skippyrc in /usr/share/doc/skippy/examples If no ~/.skippyrc exist, skippy will use /etc/X11/skippy/skippyrc

If you are using the X.org X server, there is a version of skippy, called skippy-xd that makes use of the new XDamage, XComposite and XFixes extensions. I suggest you use the xd version instead.

/etc/X11/skippy/skippyrc ~/.skippyrc

skippy(1), skippy-xd(1)

skippy was written by Hyriand <hyriand@thegraveyard.org>.

This manual page was written by Niv Sardi-Altivanik <xaiki+deb@cxhome.ath.cx>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).