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README.md

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+### why?
+
+Layout-machi is great, however it requires you to use its built-in switcher to manage your open windows. If you are shuffling, swapping, and move things around a lot, this could become counter productive.
+
+`Machina` is built on top of layout-machi, and allows you to bind frequently used actions to your keys and gives you additional user friendly features.
+
+In other words, combination of `layout-machi` and `awesomewm-machina` will give you a similar (if not better) experience than the fancyzones on windows.
+
+### what?
+
+These are the features I added:
+
+- Quick Expand
+Added feature, expands the focused client to left, right, or vertically.
+
+- Directional Swapping
+Added feature, swaps clients between regions.
+
+- Directional Shifting
+Relocate clients like Elv13's collision module
+
+- Rotational Shifting
+Relocate clients clock wise or counter clock wise.
+
+- Auto-Hide Floating Windows 
+Often times, the floating windows pollutes your background if you are using `useless-gaps`. Machina will hide those for you, but they can still be accessed through your window-switcher such as Rofi.
+
+- Floating and Tiled
+
+All keybindings work seamlessy on both tiled and floating clients. So, if you need to push that terminal to a corner, you can easily do so without changing it to tiling mode.
+
 ### install
 
 switch to your awesome config folder, typically at:
@@ -9,32 +40,37 @@ cd ~/.config/awesome
 clone this repository:
 
 ```
-https://github.com/basaran/awesomewm-machina
+git clone https://github.com/basaran/awesomewm-machina
 ```
 
 and call it from your `rc.lua`
 
 ```lua
-local machina = require('awesomewm-machina')
+local machina = require('awesomewm-machina')()
 ```
 
-append to your keybindings, typically in your `rc.lua`
+some of the default shortcuts are:
 
 ```lua
-root.keys(gears.table.join(config.globalkeys, machina.keys))
+modkey + [ : prev client within region
-```
+modkey + ] : next client within region
 
-default shortcuts are:
+modkey + shift + [ : move client to region (counter clock wise)
+modkey + shift + ] : move client to region (clock wise)
 
-```lua
+modkey + ; : move client to region on left (with bump)
-modkey + [ : prev in region
+modkey + ' : move client to region on right (with bump)
-modkey + ] : next in region
 
-modkey + insert : move top left
+modkey + shift + ; : swap with client on left if any
-modkey + delete : move bottom left
+modkey + shift + ' : swap with client on right if any
-modkey + home : center as float
+
-modkey + pageup : move top right
+modkey + insert : quick expand to left side (toggle)
-modkey + pagedown : move bottom right
+modkey + pageup : quick expand to right side (toggle)
+
+modkey + home : center (float or tiled)
+modkey + end : toggle float
+
+modkey + delete : expand client vertically
 
 modkey + j : stack friendly left
 modkey + k : stack friendly down

init.lua

@@ -26,17 +26,17 @@ local bindings = {
    ----------------╮
    --│ SHUFFLE     ◊◊
    ----------------╯
-   awful.key({modkey}, ";", shift_by_direction("left")),
+   awful.key({modkey, "Shift"}, "j", shift_by_direction("left")),
-   --+ standard shift client logic 
+   --+ move client to left
 
-   awful.key({modkey}, "'", shift_by_direction("right")),
+   awful.key({modkey, "Shift"}, "l", shift_by_direction("right")),
-   --+ standard shift client logic
+   --+ move client to right
 
-   awful.key({modkey, "Shift"}, ";", shift_by_direction("left", true)),
+   awful.key({modkey}, ";", shift_by_direction("left", true)),
-   --+ standard shift swap left
+   --+ swap left
 
-   awful.key({modkey, "Shift"}, "'", shift_by_direction("right", true)),
+   awful.key({modkey}, "'", shift_by_direction("right", true)),
-   --+ standard shift swap right
+   --+ swap right
 
    awful.key({modkey, "Shift"}, "[", my_shifter("backward")),
    --+ custom shift client logic
@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ local bindings = {
    --+ custom shift client logic
 
    awful.key({modkey}, "[", shuffle("backward")),
-   --+ shuffle back
+   --+ shuffle region backward
 
    awful.key({modkey}, "]", shuffle("forward")),
-   --+ shuffle forward
+   --+ shuffle regions forward
 
    ----------------╮
    --│ PLACEMENT   ◊◊
@@ -76,28 +76,21 @@ local bindings = {
    --│ FOCUS       ◊◊
    ----------------╯
    awful.key({modkey}, "Left", focus_by_direction("left")),
-   --+ stack friendly focus left
-
    awful.key({modkey}, "j", focus_by_direction("left")),
    --+ stack friendly focus left
 
    awful.key({modkey}, "Down", focus_by_direction("down")),
-   --+ stack friendly focus down
-
    awful.key({modkey}, "k", focus_by_direction("down")),
    --+ stack friendly focus down
-   
-   awful.key({modkey}, "Right", focus_by_direction("right")),
-   --+ stack friendly focus right
 
+   awful.key({modkey}, "Right", focus_by_direction("right")),
    awful.key({modkey}, "l", focus_by_direction("right")),
    --+ stack friendly focus right
 
    awful.key({modkey}, "Up", focus_by_direction("up")),
-   --+ stack friendly focus up
-
    awful.key({modkey}, "i", focus_by_direction("up"))
    --+ stack friendly focus up
+
 }
 
 --------------------------------------------------------------- signals -- ;
@@ -134,8 +127,8 @@ end) ----| hide all floating windows when the user switches to a
 --------------------------------------------------------------- exports -- ;
 
 module = {
-   bindings = bindings,
+   bindings = bindings
-'';}
+}
 
 local function new(arg)
    capi.root.keys(awful.util.table.join(capi.root.keys(), table.unpack(bindings)))