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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:
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Quick Expand Added feature, expands the focused client to left, right, or vertically.
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Directional Swapping Added feature, swaps clients between regions.
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Directional Shifting Relocate clients like Elv13's collision module
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Rotational Shifting Relocate clients clock wise or counter clock wise.
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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:
cd ~/.config/awesome
clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/basaran/awesomewm-machina
and call it from your rc.lua
local machina = require('awesomewm-machina')()
some of the default shortcuts are:
modkey + [ : prev client within region
modkey + ] : next client within region
modkey + shift + [ : move client to region (counter clock wise)
modkey + shift + ] : move client to region (clock wise)
modkey + ; : move client to region on left (with bump)
modkey + ' : move client to region on right (with bump)
modkey + shift + ; : swap with client on left if any
modkey + shift + ' : swap with client on right if any
modkey + insert : quick expand to left side (toggle)
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
modkey + l : stack friendly right
modkey + i : stack friendly up