Support focus follows mouse *without* raise

[pmonks]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Many users on Linux (and Windows) prefer FFM without the focused window being raised.

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be great if AutoRaise supported this.

Describe alternatives you've considered
No other macOS tools that I'm aware of support FFM without raise, so this may be a limitation of the OS.

Additional context
n/a

[synappser]

Hi @pmonks, I'm going to implement this behaviour as an optional one and even try and combine it with a real-time interactive modifier key.

I'm however still intrigued about the use case for such a behaviour and would love to see you elaborate a little further on when it might be needed. Thank you.

[pmonks]

There's no use case per se - it's just a (strong) preference. In several decades of using both, I've never enabled auto-raise on either Linux or Windows.

[alotia]

Hi @pmonks, I'm going to implement this behaviour as an optional one and even try and combine it with a real-time interactive modifier key.

I'm however still intrigued about the use case for such a behaviour and would love to see you elaborate a little further on when it might be needed. Thank you.

I would love to see this feature, too. One use case I can provide is: I am reading something from, say, Stackoverflow and trying to type the equivalent thing into my local IDE, which is usually most of the width of the screen. I would like to type in the local editor, and view the webpage as well, but the moment the IDE is focussed, it hides the browser. (Or, I have to tile the windows when doing this.)

This feature was available on some of the old unix desktops (Sun) and I found it very useful.

[synappser]

@alotia, your use case makes sense. I'm pushing this feature to the top of my todo list. Thank you and happy new year. 🎉

[alotia]

@synappser Thank you and I hope this can be done. You can scroll a windows without it getting the focus, but you cannot type into it. I recall reading many years ago that something like this was "impossible" on the Mac given how the window-system works. I really don't know anything about MacOS development, and things may have changed since then.
Thanks for the quick reply and a happy new year to you, too! Cheers!

[pmonks]

@alotia yeah I've read similar things. Hopefully @synappser is able to figure it out though - it's been a constant irritant since I switched to macOS a decade and a half ago.

[synappser]

Implemented in v0.6.7b.