From 7e6aa72664328ce8ff388510b91cc953ced46857 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Stapelberg <michael@stapelberg.de>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 01:12:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] docs/userguide: explain default_orientation config directive

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 docs/userguide | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/userguide b/docs/userguide
index e80ff774..d81b0922 100644
--- a/docs/userguide
+++ b/docs/userguide
@@ -380,6 +380,25 @@ floating_modifier <Modifiers>
 floating_modifier Mod1
 --------------------------------
 
+=== Orientation for new workspaces
+
+New workspaces get a reasonable default orientation: Wide-screen monitors
+(anything wider than high) get horizontal orientation, rotated monitors
+(anything higher than wide) get vertical orientation.
+
+With the +default_orientation+ configuration directive, you can overwrite that
+behaviour.
+
+*Syntax*:
+----------------------------------------------
+default_orientation <horizontal|vertical|auto>
+----------------------------------------------
+
+*Example*:
+----------------------------
+default_orientation vertical
+----------------------------
+
 === Layout mode for new containers
 
 This option determines in which mode new containers on workspace level will
-- 
2.39.5