3.5 KiB
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.
A combination of layout-machi and awesomewm-machina will give you a similar experience to fancy zones on windows.
What?
These are the features I added:
-
Quick Expand: Expand focused window to left, right, or vertically. This will make the window snap to the next available region.
-
Directional Swapping: Swap windows between regions.
-
Directional Shifting: Relocate windows like Elv13's collision module.
-
Rotational Shifting: 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. 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. -
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?
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.
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')()
Keybindings
some of the default shortcuts are:
modkey + [ : move to region (counter clock wise, infinite)
modkey + ] : move to region (clock wise, infinite)
modkey + shift + [ : swap with client on left (if any)
modkey + shift + ] : swap with client on right (if any)
modkey + shift + ' : prev within region
modkey + shift + ; : next within region
modkey + insert : quick expand to left side (toggle)
modkey + pageup : quick expand to right side (toggle)
modkey + delete : expand client vertically
modkey + home : center (float or tiled)
modkey + end : toggle float
modkey + j : focus left
modkey + k : focus down
modkey + l : focus right
modkey + i : focus up
modkey + shift + j : move to left region
modkey + shift + k : move to down region
modkey + shift + l : move to right region
modkey + shift + i : move to up region