Software Alternatives & Reviews

Skippy-XD VS SuperSwitcher

Compare Skippy-XD VS SuperSwitcher and see what are their differences

Skippy-XD logo Skippy-XD

Skippy-XD is a full-screen task-switcher for X11.

SuperSwitcher logo SuperSwitcher

SuperSwitcher is a (more feature-ful) replacement for the Alt-Tab window switching behavior and...
  • Skippy-XD Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-10-14
  • SuperSwitcher Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-12-10

Skippy-XD videos

Skippy-xd -- Expose Effect - Ubuntu 10.10

More videos:

  • Review - Skippy-XD on XFCE
  • Review - Skippy-XD on Fluxbox: full-screen task-switcher, Exposé-like, for X11

SuperSwitcher videos

EHX SuperSwitcher

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Skippy-XD and SuperSwitcher)
Window Manager
50 50%
50% 50
Note Taking
50 50%
50% 50
Mac
44 44%
56% 56
Linux
58 58%
42% 42

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Skippy-XD seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 4 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Skippy-XD mentions (4)

  • Workspace overview
    Something like this ? I use skippy-xd which I bind to Super + Space and it gives me a live overview of all open windows regardless of what tab they're on. Source: 11 months ago
  • Looking for tool to give overview of all workspaces
    I use skippy-xd which shows all of my active windows as a popup and just keybind it to Super + Space. Source: 12 months ago
  • Panel - preview of opened programs
    I used this https://github.com/richardgv/skippy-xd a couple of times. It works ok. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Mission control style task switcher
    There are two programs, each with its own issues. 1) skippy-xd 2) xfdashboard. Source: about 2 years ago

SuperSwitcher mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of SuperSwitcher yet. Tracking of SuperSwitcher recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Skippy-XD and SuperSwitcher, you can also consider the following products

x:choyce - A light-weight, Exposé-like window switcher for X (feat. OpenGL).

HyperKeys - Unleash the power of your keyboard by letting you bind ANY action to a shortcut. It's open-source and fully extendable. You can code you own actions or use one from the community !

WindowGrid - Quickly and easily layout windows on a dynamic grid using just the mouse.

VistaSwitcher - VistaSwitcher is an elegant and powerful task management utility for Windows OS.

TotalSpaces - TotalSpaces provides a grid of spaces on OSX Lion

picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork).