How to navigate open programs in Awesome WM using arrow keys whilst in tile layout?

Question

In Awesome WM the way you switch between open programs is by going to the previous or next client. By default it uses the keybinding Mod4 + k and Mod4 + j respectively.

However, let say I have four clients open in my screen using the tile layout, whereas I have four tiles on screen showing each program. If currently I am on the top-left tile and I want to go to the bottom left, I need to press Mod4 + j twice, cycling to the top right before arriving at the bottom left. What I want is to go directly to that tile using a single keybinding, is that possible in Awesome. I know in i3 WM this is the default behaviour using the arrows keys to move up and down, left and right between open programs.

Answer 1

The default config doesn't provide keybindigns for this, but you are looking for awful.client.focus.bydirection. For example, add a keybinding for this function:

function() client.focus.bydirection('down') end