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Comment: Removed reference to my fork of i3-layout-manager (upstream merged by pull request)

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Tomáš Báča wrote a fantastic script that makes this functionality extremely simple to use.

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I find having set/defined layouts really eases managing complex window setups.  Often I am working with many windows in some complicated setup (with child window containers of window containers etc.) and want to just get back to something simple(r) - which can be surprisingly tedious 

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You'll need to have the i3-layout-manager script in your system path for the i3.conf  shortcuts to work and load on startup.

You can clone the git repo (or even just download the script) and copy (or create a symbolic link) in your system path (I'd suggest /usr/local/bin), like below

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languagebash
git clone https://github.com/jtaalaklaxalk/i3-layout-manager.git
cd i3-layout-manager
sudo cp layout_manager.sh /usr/local/bin/i3-layout-manager
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/i3-layout-manager

and download Download (somewhere) and copy my layouts above into the ~/.layouts folder, e.g.:

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cp layout-ALL-TABBED.json layout-SPLIT-TWO-TABBED.json layout-SPLIT-FOUR-TABBED.json ~/.layouts


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