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+# sample barrier configuration file
+#
+# comments begin with the # character and continue to the end of
+# line.  comments may appear anywhere the syntax permits.
+# +-------+  +--------+ +---------+
+# |Laptop |  |Desktop1| |iMac     |
+# |       |  |        | |         |
+# +-------+  +--------+ +---------+
+
+section: screens
+	# three hosts named:  Laptop, Desktop1, and iMac
+	# These are the nice names of the hosts to make it easy to write the config file
+	# The aliases section below contain the "actual" names of the hosts (their hostnames)
+	Laptop:
+	Desktop1:
+	iMac:
+end
+
+section: links
+	# iMac is to the right of Desktop1
+	# Laptop is to the left of Desktop1
+	Desktop1:
+		right = iMac
+		left  = Laptop
+
+	# Desktop1 is to the right of Laptop
+	Laptop:
+		right = Desktop1
+
+	# Desktop1 is to the left of iMac
+	iMac:
+		left  = Desktop1
+end
+
+section: aliases
+	# The "real" name of iMac is John-Smiths-iMac-3.local. If we wanted we could remove this alias and instead use John-Smiths-iMac-3.local everywhere iMac is above. Hopefully it should be easy to see why using an alias is nicer
+	iMac:
+		John-Smiths-iMac-3.local
+end