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title: Profiles
description: Yabar's profiles set layout, padding, gap, columns, focus sizing and more per display or space.
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/yabar/layouts/profiles
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# Profiles
Settings → **Displays & Spaces**. Pick what a profile applies to, from broad to specific:
1. **Built-in display**: a laptop's screen.
2. **External displays**.
3. **One display**, by name.
4. **A labelled space** ([Labels](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/yabar/layouts/labels)).

Each can set:

| Setting                     |                                                                                 |
|-----------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Layout                      | yabai's bsp, stack or float.                                                    |
| Padding, Gap                | yabai's, for the space.                                                         |
| Max tiles                   | [Auto-stack](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/yabar/layouts/auto-stack).     |
| Columns, Beyond the columns | [Columns](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/yabar/layouts/columns).           |
| Focus sizing                | [Focus sizing](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/yabar/layouts/focus-sizing). |
| Stack indicators            | The [style](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/yabar/stacks/indicators) here.  |

Anything left empty (inherit) comes from the broader one, and in the end from your `.yabairc`. Room for stack
indicators is added on top of the padding and gap.
Yabar applies a profile as per-space settings in yabai, and only what differs: a layout or padding you change by hand on
a space no profile covers is left alone. Everything goes back to your `.yabairc`'s values when Yabar quits, and after a
crash on its next launch. Changing a layout makes yabai rebuild that space, which dissolves its stacks: yabai has no
other way to switch.