Re:Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?
by slumos on Sunday October 20, 2019 @03:16PM
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The only reason mouse focus was ever useful to me is NOT raising the window. That way you can type at one window while reading the other. Otherwise you are just saving ... one click? ... when your hand is already on the mouse? Why not Cmd-TAB instead?
Re:Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?
by waterhouse on Sunday October 20, 2019 @02:12PM
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A coworker of mine used the X11 application (or XQuartz?)'s terminal windows for their focus-follows-mouse.
I run an environment, on OSX, similar to this although (I assume) much less ambitious in the customization.
My biggest problem is the lack of focus-follows-mouse. I had this in the snow leopard days with an add-on called "mondomouse" which is abandonware and I attempted to solve it with "dwellclick" but that isn't really designed for what I need and doesn't work.
Now I see that in very, very new versions of OSX there is some buried setting in accessibility that does honest-to-god focus-follows-mouse (as in, raise window as if I clicked it when I hover over) ... can anyone confirm/deny ?