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### why?
### 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 moving things around often, 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.
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A combination of `layout-machi` and `awesomewm-machina` will give you a similar experience to fancy zones on windows.
### what?
### What?
These are the features I added:
- Quick Expand:
Added feature, expands the focused client to left, right, or vertically.
Expand focused window to left, right, or vertically. This will make the window snap to the next available region.
- Directional Swapping:
Added feature, swaps clients between regions.
Swap windows between regions.
- Directional Shifting:
Relocate clients like Elv13's collision module
Relocate windows like Elv13's collision module.
- Rotational Shifting:
Relocate clients clock wise or counter clock wise.
Relocate windows clockwise or counter clockwise. This uses a different algorithm compared to directional shifting and should be more accurate in merging your floating clients to the tiling layout.
- Shuffling:
Go backward or forward in a region, and it will cycle the clients inside that area.
Go backward or forward in a region, and it will cycle the clients inside that area. Kind of like fake tabs.
- 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.
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- Floating and Tiled:
All keybindings, including swapping work seamlessy on both the tiled and the floating windows. So, if you need to push that terminal to a corner, you can easily do so without changing it to tiling mode.
### next?
### Next?
The region shuffling works like tabs, but it would be nice to have a visual queue like tabs. That will be in the next version.
The region shuffling works like tabs, but it would be nice to have a visual queue like tabs. That will be in the next version. I'm also planning to add chained keybindings kind of like in emacs and vi that displays a modal help window.
New layout-machi has some logic to auto expand your windows onto multiple regions. For some work flows this might be desired, but I might look into a way to disable that as I find it to get in the way when changing windows from float to tile. This is especially annoying when you have a centered float.
### Layout-Machi compatibility
Machina should work just fine with both versions of layout-machi.
### Problems?
If you have any issues or recommendations, please feel free to open a request. PRs are most welcome.
### problems?
If you have any issues, please feel free to open a request. PRs are most welcome.
### install
### Install
switch to your awesome config folder, typically at:
```
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local machina = require('awesomewm-machina')()
```
### Keybindings
some of the default shortcuts are:
```lua
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modkey + shift + i : move to up region
```
### Preview
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/30809170/123538385-ab5f7b80-d702-11eb-9a14-e8b9045d9d27.mp4