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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:29 +0100
:Revision: 		2
:Copyright:		CC by-nc-sa


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Skippy - or Expose for Gnome
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:Description:
    MacOS (especially X) is a very cool operating system in matters of
    usability and style. I like it very much, except it's only deficiencies:

`MacOS`__ (especially X) is a very cool operating system in matters of
usability and style. I like it very much, except it's only deficiencies:

.. __: http://www.apple.com/macosx/

- It's not free.
- It's only available for Mac.

The latter one would not be that bad, but the first one is a critical point
for me to use it. And beside that, a Mac is not very cheep to buy.

Nevertheless, MacOS has some very cool features and one of them is
"`Expose`__". It allows you through a special keyboard hook to get an overview
on all open windows, when it resizes them all to little thumbnails and you can
bring one of them to the forground again by clicking it.

.. __: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/expose/

This is (in my eyes) a very great feature and I wanted to have it for my
Gnome, too. Luckily some more people like that feature and created `Skippy`__.
Skippy is a tiny tool, which is now started automatically with Gnome for me
and I have the Expose effect by hitting F12.

.. __: http://thegraveyard.org/skippy.php

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.. |image_1| image:: /applications/blog/uploads/skippy-6.serendipityThumb.png
   :target: http://thegraveyard.org/media/skippy-5.png

**Nice**.


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Comments
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- shoma at Thu, 17 Jun 2004 03:42:58 +0200

  Hi, Tobias. This fits you well. http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/

- Caillou izle at Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:30:51 +0200

  Trackbacktest für Tobias. Bitte ignorieren. Ist gleich wieder weg. I
  promise!