Update awesome wm layouts and enable useless gaps

awesome/rc.lua

@@ -59,9 +59,11 @@ end
 -- {{{ Variable definitions
 -- Themes define colours, icons, font and wallpapers.
 beautiful.init(gears.filesystem.get_configuration_dir() .. "/theme.lua")
+beautiful.useless_gap = 3
+beautiful.gap_single_client = false
 
 -- This is used later as the default terminal and editor to run.
-terminal = "st"
+terminal = "alacritty"
 editor = os.getenv("EDITOR") or "vim"
 editor_cmd = terminal .. " -e " .. editor
 
@@ -73,21 +75,23 @@ editor_cmd = terminal .. " -e " .. editor
 modkey = "Mod4"
 
 -- I prefer an ASCII representation of the layouts.
-awful.layout.suit.max.name      = "[M]"
-awful.layout.suit.tile.name     = "[]="
-awful.layout.suit.floating.name = "><>"
+awful.layout.suit.max.name       = "[M]"
+awful.layout.suit.tile.name      = "[]="
+awful.layout.suit.floating.name  = "><>"
+awful.layout.suit.tile.left.name = "=[]"
+awful.layout.suit.spiral.name    = "🌀"
 
 -- Table of layouts to cover with awful.layout.inc, order matters.
 awful.layout.layouts = {
     awful.layout.suit.floating,
     awful.layout.suit.max,
-    awful.layout.suit.tile,
+    -- 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,
     -- awful.layout.suit.spiral.dwindle,
     -- awful.layout.suit.max.fullscreen,
     -- awful.layout.suit.magnifier,