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OS X is the completely inflexible OS here, as usual - not Windows. This setting is built into Windows [1] and if you don't like the way it works, you can also

OS X is the completely inflexible OS here, as usual - not Windows. This setting is built into Windows [1] and if you don't like the way it works, you can also do it with a few lines of AutoHotKey code. [1] - http://winaero.com/blog/turn-on-xmouse-active-window-tracking-focus-follows-mouse-pointer-feature-in-windows-8-1-windows-8-and-windows-7/ http://winaero.com/blog/turn-on-xmouse-active-window-trackin...

Jtsummers 11y ago
Nice. Now if it'd work consistently. We have Microsoft Lync for work. I've enabled the feature, but it will only work on the contact list window, not the chat windows. It also only works for some windows (like IE) when pointing to certain parts of the window. Having the pointer on the text of a page doesn't seem to be good enough, it has to be on the chrome and toolbars.
david-given 11y ago
Beware: > They will also get auto raised, meaning the window on which the mouse hovers which be brought to the foreground. If you don't want autoraise you have to hack the registry. And even then it works very badly. A lot of apps, at least back when I was using XMouse on XP, assume that if they have the focus they're at the top of the stack, and some (mostly the Microsoft ones!) will autoraise themselves regardless of the registry setting. Focus-follows-mouse on Windows isn't, or at least wasn't, much of a success. It was marginally less annoying than click-to-focus, IMO, but only marginally.
- stuaxo 11y ago
  On windows it is so so, but some programs are terrible, back in the day I had to use eclipse and it would autoraise when you moved the mouse over certain widget boundries.
CUViper 11y ago
I once wrote a small tray icon to dynamically toggle this stuff, including settings for auto-raise and delay. I haven't wanted it in ages, but I just tried on Win10 and it still appears to work! https://github.com/cuviper/mousewinx https://github.com/cuviper/mousewinx I won't try to compare this to the Winaero tools. Mine is definitely in the hobbyist-scratches-an-itch class of software, but hey, it's open source too!

Jtsummers 11y ago

Nice. Now if it'd work consistently. We have Microsoft Lync for work. I've enabled the feature, but it will only work on the contact list window, not the chat windows. It also only works for some windows (like IE) when pointing to certain parts of the window. Having the pointer on the text of a page doesn't seem to be good enough, it has to be on the chrome and toolbars.

david-given 11y ago

Beware: > They will also get auto raised, meaning the window on which the mouse hovers which be brought to the foreground. If you don't want autoraise you have to hack the registry. And even then it works very badly. A lot of apps, at least back when I was using XMouse on XP, assume that if they have the focus they're at the top of the stack, and some (mostly the Microsoft ones!) will autoraise themselves regardless of the registry setting. Focus-follows-mouse on Windows isn't, or at least wasn't, much of a success. It was marginally less annoying than click-to-focus, IMO, but only marginally.

stuaxo 11y ago
On windows it is so so, but some programs are terrible, back in the day I had to use eclipse and it would autoraise when you moved the mouse over certain widget boundries.

CUViper 11y ago

I once wrote a small tray icon to dynamically toggle this stuff, including settings for auto-raise and delay. I haven't wanted it in ages, but I just tried on Win10 and it still appears to work! https://github.com/cuviper/mousewinx https://github.com/cuviper/mousewinx I won't try to compare this to the Winaero tools. Mine is definitely in the hobbyist-scratches-an-itch class of software, but hey, it's open source too!