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Example configurations
komorebi, and tiling window managers in general, are very complex pieces of software. To make
starting out easier, the repository has an example configuration,
docs/linux/komorebi.example.json, which is kept working: a test loads it with
every change.
Besides komorebi.json, komorebi for KDE is configured by the NixOS module, which installs it and
starts it with every Plasma session (Installing komorebi), and by a key binding
file in the format of skhd, whkd or sxhkd (Key bindings); examples of both
are further down.
komorebi.json
The example sets some defaults and gives the first monitor eight workspaces, each with a different layout. This page has the file as it is:
{
"app_specific_configuration_path": "$HOME/.config/komorebi/applications.json",
"cross_monitor_move_behaviour": "Insert",
"default_workspace_padding": 15,
"default_container_padding": 15,
"border": true,
"border_width": 6,
"border_offset": 5,
"floating_window_aspect_ratio": "Widescreen",
"floating_layer_behaviour": "Float",
"resize_delta": 100,
"ignore_rules": [],
"floating_applications": [],
"manage_rules": [],
"monitors": [
{
"workspaces": [
{
"name": "I",
"layout": "BSP",
"initial_workspace_rules": [
// {
// "kind": "Exe",
// "id": "firefox",
// "matching_strategy": "Equals"
// }
]
},
{
"name": "II",
"layout": "VerticalStack"
},
{
"name": "III",
"layout": "HorizontalStack"
},
{
"name": "IV",
"layout": "UltrawideVerticalStack"
},
{
"name": "V",
"layout": "Rows"
},
{
"name": "VI",
"layout": "Grid"
},
{
"name": "VII",
"layout": "RightMainVerticalStack"
},
{
"name": "VIII",
"layout": "Scrolling"
}
]
}
]
}
komorebic quickstart writes it, the applications.json below and an skhdrc of
sample key bindings, where the daemon looks for them
(Quickstart and autostart). Or put it there yourself,
~/.config/komorebi/komorebi.json, or give it to the daemon with komorebic start --config. Configuration explains every key and
where the daemon looks. The settings of a monitor with more than one entry in monitors, and of
each workspace, are there too.
Application specific configuration
app_specific_configuration_path names a file of rules for the applications that need them, which
the repository has a start of in
komorebic/applications.json. komorebic quickstart puts a copy
where the example says, ~/.config/komorebi/applications.json; a path with no file behind it is
skipped.
Application specific configuration explains the
format.
Padding
While you can set the workspace padding (the space between the outer edges of the windows and
the edge of the monitor) and the container padding (the space between each of the tiled windows)
for each workspace on its own, you can also set a default for both of these values that applies
to all workspaces, using default_workspace_padding and default_container_padding.
The floating layer
floating_layer_behaviour is Float in the example: a window that opens while a workspace is on
its floating layer floats, centered, where the default is to tile it. A window that opens while the
workspace is on its tiling layer is tiled either way.
Layouts
BSP
+-------+-----+
| | |
| +--+--+
| | |--|
+-------+--+--+
Vertical Stack
+-------+-----+
| | |
| +-----+
| | |
+-------+-----+
RightMainVerticalStack
+-----+-------+
| | |
+-----+ |
| | |
+-----+-------+
Horizontal Stack
+------+------+
| |
|------+------+
| | |
+------+------+
Columns
+--+--+--+--+
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
+--+--+--+--+
Rows
If you have a vertical monitor, I recommend using this layout.
+-----------+
|-----------|
|-----------|
|-----------|
+-----------+
Ultrawide Vertical Stack
If you have an ultrawide monitor, I recommend using this layout.
+-----+-----------+-----+
| | | |
| | +-----+
| | | |
| | +-----+
| | | |
+-----+-----------+-----+
Grid
If you like the grid layout in LeftWM this is almost exactly the same!
The grid layout does not support resizing windows tiles.
+-----+-----+ +---+---+---+ +---+---+---+ +---+---+---+
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | +---+
+-----+-----+ | +---+---+ +---+---+---+ +---+---| |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | +---+
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----+-----+ +---+---+---+ +---+---+---+ +---+---+---+
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A NixOS configuration
The module and the sample key bindings of the repository, with every binding a static shortcut can be made one, and the engine for the rest:
{
services.desktopManager.plasma6.enable = true;
services.komorebi = {
enable = true;
keybindings = {
format = "skhd";
file = ./skhdrc;
mode = "auto";
# the names an skhdrc gives applications are those of macOS
appAliases."Google Chrome" = [ "google-chrome" ];
};
};
}
The key bindings can also be written in the configuration itself:
{
services.komorebi.keybindings = {
format = "sxhkd";
text = ''
alt + {h,j,k,l}
komorebic focus {left,down,up,right}
alt + shift + {h,j,k,l}
komorebic move {left,down,up,right}
'';
};
}
Key bindings
skhdrc.sample, whkdrc.sample and
sxhkdrc.sample bind the same keys to the same komorebic commands in the
three formats: focusing, moving, stacking and resizing windows, the layouts, and the
workspaces. Each is a starting point for a file of your own, in the format you know. Their
bindings are all plain ones, so with mode = "auto" every one of them is a static shortcut,
and with the default mode, engine, the daemon runs every one.
Copy one to ~/.config/komorebi, where the daemon and komorebic hotkeys compile look for a
key binding file when they are given none, to use it without NixOS:
mkdir -p ~/.config/komorebi
cp docs/skhdrc.sample ~/.config/komorebi/skhdrc