From 53d2d132cceae0a23ba3fc72bc4de07d86f17555 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antonio Malcolm Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 21:57:11 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] README update --- README.md | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6f4481e..5e1a7a7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ...is a full-screen, expose-style, task-switcher for X11. You know that thing Mac OS X, Gnome 3, Compiz and KWin do where you press a hotkey and suddenly you see miniature versions of all your windows at once? Skippy-XD does just that. -Originally mirrored from [the Google Code project](https://code.google.com/p/skippy-xd/) this GitHub repo hosts the code of a fork from the original 0.5.0 release (2004). That fork was initially maintained by Nick Watts (2011) and is now maintained by [Richard Grenville](https://github.com/richardgv) (2013). +Originally mirrored from [the Google Code project](https://code.google.com/p/skippy-xd/) this GitHub repo hosts the code of a fork from the original 0.5.0 release (2004), initially maintained by Nick Watts (2011) and Richard Grenville (2013). Skippy-XD is a standalone application for providing a window picker with live previews (including live video) on Linux desktops that run an X server with compositing support. That means it's not baked into the window manager, and compositing is used only when the window picker is active. @@ -56,21 +56,20 @@ skippy-xd --start-daemon If for whatever reason you need to cleanly stop the running daemon, do this: -``` +```sh skippy-xd --stop-daemon ``` Once the daemon is running you can use the following command to activate it: -``` +```sh skippy-xd --activate-window-picker ``` However, sometimes pressing the Return key to run this last command also causes the window to be selected, so it is probably more effective in testing to do this: -``` -sleep 1 && skippy-xd --activate-window-picker -This will wait 1 second, then activate the picker. +```sh +sleep 0.5 && skippy-xd --activate-window-picker ``` Alternatively, you can use the included toggle script, which starts the daemon, if it isn't already started, and activates the window picker: