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Re:The Curse of the Modern Office by delish on Thursday November 24, 2016 @01:11PM (#13031751)
i use amethyst, an xmonad-inspired wm with pretty good focus-follows-mouse.

i tried kwm, and couldn't get the keybindings to register, nor get FFM to work. xmonad is better than all of them for what it's worth.

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Re:The Curse of the Modern Office by thinkmassive on Thursday November 24, 2016 @05:01PM (#13033054)
Coming from i3, I tried Amethyst for a while when I had to use a Mac at my previous job. It seems like the best solution within the constraints of OS X, but it always seemed like enough of a hack that I ended up battling both it and the real window manager, so I ended up disabling it after a few months. The focus-follows-mouse never came close to working as expected for me.

Fighting with window size, positioning, and focus is such a productivity killer. Now I'm glad to be back in a real tiling window manager.

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