Change default layout

How to change Awesome's default layout?

In ~/.config/awesome/rc.lua change tags[s] = awful.tag({ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 }, s) to tags[s] = awful.tag({ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 }, s, awful.layout.suit.tile.left) or use any of the other layouts, as seen in the documentation.

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