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I have been using awesome in on ubuntu 14.04 for a while. The default layouts defined in rc.lua is:

layouts =
{
    awful.layout.suit.floating,
    awful.layout.suit.tile,
    awful.layout.suit.tile.left,
    awful.layout.suit.tile.bottom,
    awful.layout.suit.tile.top,
    awful.layout.suit.fair,
    awful.layout.suit.fair.horizontal,
    awful.layout.suit.spiral,
    awful.layout.suit.spiral.dwindle,
    awful.layout.suit.max,
    awful.layout.suit.max.fullscreen,
    awful.layout.suit.magnifier
}

I have a hard time to wrap my head around this! Some of them I managed to understand (I think) just by testing them out, but not all of them.

I have tried to find some documentation that describes it but with no success. Is there some documentation where I can read about them and the conceptual thoughts behind it all? When and how they are suitable for different tasks.

I understand that its individual but if there was some sort of information at all about these things the awesome community would benefit greatly form that I think!

UlfR
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I understand a visual documentation would be awesome, but afaik there is none. There is a (very superficial) text description here, though, which I'm transcribing (which some minor fixes) below:

  • awful.layout.suit.corner.nw

Corner layout. Display master client in a corner of the screen, and slaves in one column and one row around the master.

  • awful.layout.suit.corner.ne

Corner layout. Display master client in a corner of the screen, and slaves in one column and one row around the master.

  • awful.layout.suit.corner.sw

Corner layout. Display master client in a corner of the screen, and slaves in one column and one row around the master.

  • awful.layout.suit.corner.se

Corner layout. Display master client in a corner of the screen, and slaves in one column and one row around the master.

  • awful.layout.suit.floating

The floating layout.

  • awful.layout.suit.magnifier

The magnifier layout.

  • awful.layout.suit.max

Maximized layout.

  • awful.layout.suit.max.fullscreen

Fullscreen layout.

  • awful.layout.suit.spiral.dwindle

Dwindle layout.

  • awful.layout.suit.spiral

Spiral layout.

  • awful.layout.suit.tile.right

The main tile algo, on the right.

  • awful.layout.suit.tile.left

The main tile algo, on the left.

  • awful.layout.suit.tile.bottom

The main tile algo, on the bottom.

  • awful.layout.suit.tile.top

The main tile algo, on the top.

samuelgrigolato
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The documentation layouts details them.

Some issues can occur to understand what happened when you use these layouts when you "accidentally" press ModKey + Shift + h or ModKey + Ctrl + h. It modifies the tile view.

Try the layout with these modification to find the best layout for your needs.

Martin Rosalie
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