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[i3/i3] / docs / userguide

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@@ -946,12 +946,12 @@ the next section.
 
 === Focus follows mouse
 
-By default, window focus follows your mouse movements. However, if you have a
-setup where your mouse usually is in your way (like a touchpad on your laptop
-which you do not want to disable completely), you might want to disable 'focus
-follows mouse' and control focus only by using your keyboard.  The mouse will
-still be useful inside the currently active window (for example to click on
-links in your browser window).
+By default, window focus follows your mouse movements as the mouse crosses
+window borders. However, if you have a setup where your mouse usually is in your
+way (like a touchpad on your laptop which you do not want to disable
+completely), you might want to disable 'focus follows mouse' and control focus
+only by using your keyboard.  The mouse will still be useful inside the
+currently active window (for example to click on links in your browser window).
 
 *Syntax*:
 --------------------------
@@ -1802,7 +1802,8 @@ The +toggle+ option will toggle the orientation of the split container if it
 contains a single window. Otherwise it makes the current window a split
 container with opposite orientation compared to the parent container.
 Use +layout toggle split+ to change the layout of any split container from
-splitv to splith or vice-versa.
+splitv to splith or vice-versa. You can also define a custom sequence of layouts
+to cycle through with +layout toggle+, see <<manipulating_layout>>.
 
 *Syntax*:
 --------------------------------
@@ -1822,6 +1823,11 @@ Use +layout toggle split+, +layout stacking+, +layout tabbed+, +layout splitv+
 or +layout splith+ to change the current container layout to splith/splitv,
 stacking, tabbed layout, splitv or splith, respectively.
 
+Specify up to four layouts after +layout toggle+ to cycle through them. Every
+time the command is executed, the layout specified after the currently active
+one will be applied. If the currently active layout is not in the list, the
+first layout in the list will be activated.
+
 To make the current window (!) fullscreen, use +fullscreen enable+ (or
 +fullscreen enable global+ for the global mode), to leave either fullscreen
 mode use +fullscreen disable+, and to toggle between these two states use
@@ -1834,6 +1840,7 @@ enable+ respectively +floating disable+ (or +floating toggle+):
 --------------------------------------------
 layout default|tabbed|stacking|splitv|splith
 layout toggle [split|all]
+layout toggle [split|tabbed|stacking|splitv|splith] [split|tabbed|stacking|splitv|splith]…
 --------------------------------------------
 
 *Examples*:
@@ -1848,6 +1855,15 @@ bindsym $mod+x layout toggle
 # Toggle between stacking/tabbed/splith/splitv:
 bindsym $mod+x layout toggle all
 
+# Toggle between stacking/tabbed/splith:
+bindsym $mod+x layout toggle stacking tabbed splith
+
+# Toggle between splitv/tabbed
+bindsym $mod+x layout toggle splitv tabbed
+
+# Toggle between last split layout/tabbed/stacking
+bindsym $mod+x layout toggle split tabbed stacking
+
 # Toggle fullscreen
 bindsym $mod+f fullscreen toggle
 
@@ -2090,6 +2106,23 @@ i3-msg 'rename workspace to "2: mail"'
 bindsym $mod+r exec i3-input -F 'rename workspace to "%s"' -P 'New name: '
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+If you want to rename workspaces on demand while keeping the navigation stable,
+you can use a setup like this:
+
+*Example*:
+-------------------------
+bindsym $mod+1 workspace number "1: www"
+bindsym $mod+2 workspace number "2: mail"
+...
+-------------------------
+
+If a workspace does not exist, the command +workspace number "1: mail"+ will
+create workspace "1: mail".
+
+If a workspace with number 1 does already exist, the command will switch to this
+workspace and ignore the text part. So even when the workspace has been renamed
+to "1: web", the above command will still switch to it.
+
 === Moving workspaces to a different screen
 
 See <<move_to_outputs>> for how to move a container/workspace to a different