Layouts

A layout is an algorithm for laying out windows in a group on your screen. Since Qtile is a tiling window manager, this usually means that we try to use space as efficiently as possible, and give the user ample commands that can be bound to keys to interact with layouts.

The layouts variable defines the list of layouts you will use with Qtile. The first layout in the list is the default. If you define more than one layout, you will probably also want to define key bindings to let you switch to the next and previous layouts.

A list of available layouts can be found in the Built-in Layouts reference.

Example

from libqtile import layout
layouts = [
    layout.Max(),
    layout.Stack(stacks=2)
]