gaps outside have been implemented? about awesome HOT 1 CLOSED

Hello,

Nope, afaik, there is only the concept of useless_gap in awesome which is basically the inner gap found in sway/i3 if I understand correctly.

One thing you could do is play with the screen padding like so:

    -- [...]
    awful.key({ modkey,           }, "=", function ()
                local s = awful.screen.focused()
                s.padding = {
                    left   = s.padding.left + 10,
                    right  = s.padding.right + 10,
                    top    = s.padding.top + 10,
                    bottom = s.padding.bottom + 10,
                }
        end, {description = "Increase screen padding by 10", group = "screen"})
    -- [...]

You just need to be careful to add boundaries to your padding, negative padding is not forbidden and top padding needs to take the wibar (or whatever you use) into account.

Another solution would be to bake the concept of outer and inner gap into awful's layout system to replace the useless gap.
I've tried moving stuff around a bit and it seems to be pretty easy to do. I have a commit here on my fork.

Though it needs some more testing and may break some configurations so I'm not sure this is really interesting. This was just an excuse for me to play with the layout system tbh.

from awesome.