99 lines
2.8 KiB
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99 lines
2.8 KiB
Markdown
### why?
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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.
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`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.
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### what?
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These are the features I added:
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- Quick Expand:
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Added feature, expands the focused client to left, right, or vertically.
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- Directional Swapping:
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Added feature, swaps clients between regions.
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- Directional Shifting:
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Relocate clients like Elv13's collision module
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- Rotational Shifting:
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Relocate clients clock wise or counter clock wise.
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- Shuffling:
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Go backward or forward in a region, and it will cycle the clients inside that area.
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- Auto-Hide Floating Windows:
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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:
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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.
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### next?
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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.
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### problems?
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If you have any issues, please feel free to open a request. PRs are most welcome.
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### install
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switch to your awesome config folder, typically at:
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```
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cd ~/.config/awesome
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```
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clone this repository:
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```
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git clone https://github.com/basaran/awesomewm-machina
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```
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and call it from your `rc.lua`
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```lua
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local machina = require('awesomewm-machina')()
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```
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some of the default shortcuts are:
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```lua
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modkey + [ : prev within region
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modkey + ] : next within region
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modkey + shift + [ : move to region (counter clock wise, infinite)
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modkey + shift + ] : move to region (clock wise, infinite)
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modkey + ; : swap with client on left (if any)
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modkey + ' : swap with client on right (if any)
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modkey + insert : quick expand to left side (toggle)
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modkey + pageup : quick expand to right side (toggle)
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modkey + home : center (float or tiled)
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modkey + end : toggle float
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modkey + delete : expand client vertically
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modkey + j : focus left
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modkey + k : focus down
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modkey + l : focus right
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modkey + i : focus up
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modkey + shift + j : move to left region
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modkey + shift + k : move to down region
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modkey + shift + l : move to right region
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modkey + shift + i : move to up region
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```
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### Preview
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https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/30809170/123538385-ab5f7b80-d702-11eb-9a14-e8b9045d9d27.mp4
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