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Re:Show HN: Universal Pause Button by mouhtasi on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @10:35PM (#9689752)
I believe some window managers give the option of automatically focusing to the window under the cursor.
Re:Show HN: Universal Pause Button by endgame on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @10:58PM (#9689823)
And once you're used to it you'll never want to go back. All of my experiences with focus-follow-mouse on commercial OSes have been almost-but-not-quite right.
Re:Show HN: Universal Pause Button by eropple on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @01:28AM (#9690244)
> And once you're used to it you'll never want to go back.

Eh. I've used focus-follows-mouse and tend instead to strongly prefer the OS X method of allowing scroll events to percolate to the window under the cursor but retaining keyboard focus on the window it's currently in. This allows me to scroll, say, a web browser on my right-hand monitor, while continuing to type in the left.

Re:Show HN: Universal Pause Button by tehwalrus on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @03:52AM (#9690580)
Hover-focus is great on tiling window managers, but I'm not sure I'd react well to it where windows overlap by design.

Also, don't forget that OS X lets you scroll whatever window your mouse is over, even if it is "blurred" (not in focus). This is the one feature that I miss most whenever I need to use Windows.

Re:Show HN: Universal Pause Button by chimprich on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @04:23AM (#9690660)
There's a couple of free Windows programs that compensate for this. http://superuser.com/questions/110700/making-a-mouse-scroll-...
Re:Show HN: Universal Pause Button by 7Z7 on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @07:14AM (#9691197)
I, and many of the thousand or so Linux users at my company, disagree!

The only people here who really seem to like it are the ones using drawing-tablets as their main input.

Re:Show HN: Universal Pause Button by bubblesorting on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @11:36PM (#9689912)
Focus-follows-mouse doesn't work so great in OSX because of the global menubar, everywhere else it's great though!