# sample barrier configuration file # # comments begin with the # character and continue to the end of # line. comments may appear anywhere the syntax permits. # +-------+ +--------+ +---------+ # |Laptop | |Desktop1| |iMac | # | | | | | | # +-------+ +--------+ +---------+ section: screens # three hosts named: Laptop, Desktop1, and iMac # These are the nice names of the hosts to make it easy to write the config file # The aliases section below contain the "actual" names of the hosts (their hostnames) Laptop: Desktop1: iMac: end section: links # iMac is to the right of Desktop1 # Laptop is to the left of Desktop1 Desktop1: right = iMac left = Laptop # Desktop1 is to the right of Laptop Laptop: right = Desktop1 # Desktop1 is to the left of iMac iMac: left = Desktop1 end section: aliases # The "real" name of iMac is John-Smiths-iMac-3.local. If we wanted we could remove this alias and instead use John-Smiths-iMac-3.local everywhere iMac is above. Hopefully it should be easy to see why using an alias is nicer John-Smiths-iMac-3.local: iMac end