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I am coming from i3 and I only used two layouts tiled and stacked. I am currently looking for a way to get the stacked layout into awesome.

It seems that awful.layout.suit.max is very close to what I want. The problem that I have is that I can't seem to focus any clients.

awful.client.focus.bydirection doesn't seem to do anything with the max layout. I looked at how awful.layout.suit.max and awful.layout.suit.max and there doesn't seem to be anything special.

So I assume awful.client.focus.bydirection doesn't work because the clients are stacked. awful.client.focus.byidx(-1) doesn't seem to do anything.

How would I select a new client in the awful.layout.suit.max layout?

Maik Klein
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  • Could you open some terminals and type in them? That should make it obvious if `awful.client.focus.byidx(-1)` did what it is supposed to do, since you are typing in another terminal now. Besides that: I am using basically the default config and the max layout works for me as expected with Mod4+j/k (which is `focus.byidx`). – Uli Schlachter Dec 29 '19 at 15:56
  • Hm you are right. `focus.byidx` does not work at all for me. I might have changed something that made it break. – Maik Klein Jan 01 '20 at 13:56
  • Oh yeah, I didn't wrap the `focus.byidx` function call in another function, and so it just didn't get called at all. – Maik Klein Jan 01 '20 at 14:05

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Try my Collision module. It has all the necessary logic to support geometric navigation. This includes rather hacky tricks to work with all default layouts.

Emmanuel Lepage Vallee
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