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Feature request "focus follow mouse" / "mouse follow focus" #12
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Okay, since I don't use this feature, and I don't understand why people use it. What are the workflows of people who use it? There are several controversial questions:
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+1 for this feature, it will be hard for me to leave yabai without this |
example workflows
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I'll describe my use-case as well:
I'll rarely use the menu bar - I either use shortcuts or if make my window fullsize if I need it
I use focus follows mouse + mouse follows focus in i3/sway/yabai, so the cursor moves to the center of the focused window if I use the keyboard to change focus.
I don't know the solution to this one, but I would personally be fine with this working any way (or not) with floating windows as I don't mind clicking these. |
This could be a good reference for implementing it: https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise |
I use this feature a lot in i3. My most use case for copy pasting. I select a text with a mouse on workspace A, move my mouse to workspace B and paste there. I don't need to click on a mouse to focus the window buy just hit the copy and paste shortcut. |
This is how I use it, hope it helps. As a web developer, I use the mouse most of the time for testing applications, and since it is always on reach, I got used to the mouse for switching window when:
Here are your answers from my perspective.
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+1 for this. The key use case for me is to be able to switch to windows on multiple monitors for copy paste from browser to editor. |
+1 for adding this in. In the meantime for anyone wanting this functionality, I found that https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise gets the job done. |
Pretty please. This seems like a no-brainer to have. You either don't use mouse at all and if you do, having this feature is quite a blessing. |
My use case is simply having the mouse follow me to the active screen; can't do everything with keyboard and this saves time compared to dragging it all the way to the next screen. Luckily AutoRaise also covers this with its warping! |
+1 |
To add context on why this is useful:
If I need to click a button on my web browser I now have to drag my house across potentially 2 full monitors. It's not the end of the world but it's annoying. Would anybody mind sharing their AutoRaise config btw? |
This my config (stored at
I wish that it wouldn't focus my background "stacked" windows which sometimes I get surprised by when I mouse over them. I'd still much rather have this in AeroSpace itself to "focus" windows in the workspace when I switch. But for now this hack works fine. I can't get it to auto-launch with AeroSpace in my config properly, so I just run this in a terminal. Good enough, but if somebody knows how to make it launch in the background that would be pretty cool too! |
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