Funny, I had to use windows for the first time in a while for work recently and the first thing that annoyed me was clicking a window to make it the active one actually pressed the button too, so now I have to aim and be extra careful when putting a window in the forefront that I don’t click anything I don’t want to. It’s like a minefield! I mostly “overlap” my windows so I can see pieces of them all at once and rarely use things side-by-side, so I can see your frustration and why it works for my flow. I think the only solution for you is to make your side-by-side windows full screen so they are on the same z level
I experience the same behavior and have found no system setting to alter it either. Maybe there’s a terminal or plist hack, but thru the UI, no.
Here’s my work around.
Non-dominant hand toggles window from the keyboard, dominant hand clicks.
Wish I had better news.
I posted on the firefox community too hoping someone has a solution whether it is about:config or an addon to change the behavior, since the active interaction requirement doesn't apply to the address bar. So at least changing the behavior of Firefox would be huge, since returning to the browser is such a huge part of my multitasking.
Please post if someone replies with a valid method (about:config, hopefully). Cheers & enjoy the rest of your day.
No responses but did find this thread that's gone years back.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/98310/focus-follows-mouse-plus-auto-raise-on-mac-os-x
Haven't tried it yet, but solution someone posted there was
I've been coming back to this question periodically for about 10 years and I finally found a simple solution: AutoRaise https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise
By default it enables focus-follows-mouse AND autoraise. You can delay the autoraise with a config option.
It also has what they call "warp" function that centers the mouse pointer in a window when you Command-Tab to the window. I never knew I needed this until I tried it, but once I tried it, I can't live without it!
There is also a fork I found through Macports
https://github.com/lhaeger/AutoRaise
While AutoRaise is concerned with GUI window and mouse behaviour, as a command line application it lacks a GUI itself.
Here's where the Launcher app bundle comes into play: a menubar application that allows to control and configure the AutoRaise binary. A mouse click on it's menubar icon will start/stop AutoRaise, preferences can be configured from it's context menu and will be saved between sessions.
Current issue seems to be that it doesn't work on MacOS 14 yet, which I'm not on.
Ooo… thanks!
The only window management software I run is Windowmizer, which both shows my age and disdain for Job’s design prejudices. I used Unsanity’s haxie before that.
My main’s on X.13.06, so that won’t be an issue, will give them a whirl. 👍🏻
Again, thanks for the info!
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