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+    layout {
+        gaps 16 // Gap between windows
+        center-focused-column "never" // Don’t auto-center focused column
+
+        background-color "transparent" // <- needed for noctalia-shell to set wallpaper
+
+        preset-column-widths {
+            proportion 0.5  // 1/2
+            proportion 0.2  // 1/5
+            proportion 0.4  // 2/5
+            proportion 0.6  // 3/5
+    }
+
+        struts {
+    }
+    shadow
+    focus-ring {
+        width 2
+
+        active-color "#e01b24"
+    }
+    border {
+        off
+    }
+}