From ce480dcc74d3bec2ae9dcb4d5c77a12d35edf906 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Stapelberg <michael@stapelberg.de>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 10:41:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] use splith as default when restoring a layout
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This frees users from specifying layouts even when they don’t make any
difference, e.g. leaf nodes.
---
 src/load_layout.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/load_layout.c b/src/load_layout.c
index 1b08f8c1..dbd1f0df 100644
--- a/src/load_layout.c
+++ b/src/load_layout.c
@@ -67,6 +67,12 @@ static int json_start_map(void *ctx) {
 static int json_end_map(void *ctx) {
     LOG("end of map\n");
     if (!parsing_swallows && !parsing_rect && !parsing_window_rect && !parsing_geometry) {
+        /* Set a few default values to simplify manually crafted layout files. */
+        if (json_node->layout == L_DEFAULT) {
+            DLOG("Setting layout = L_SPLITH\n");
+            json_node->layout = L_SPLITH;
+        }
+
         LOG("attaching\n");
         con_attach(json_node, json_node->parent, true);
         LOG("Creating window\n");