Set Terminal Focus to Follow the Mouse Cursor in Mac OS X
If you’re coming to Mac OS X from elsewhere in the unix & x11 world, you might be used to the focus of Terminal windows following your mouse cursor. With a little command line magic, we can enable this hidden feature in the Mac OS X Terminal.app too, here’s how:
Launch the Terminal and enter the following:
defaults write com.apple.terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES
You’ll now need to relaunch Terminal.app for changes to take effect.
If you don’t like it, you can disable cursor focus by changing YES to NO and reissuing the command:
defaults write com.apple.terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string NO
Then relaunch Terminal.app for the click-to-focus default setting to be enabled again.
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X11 style, great idea
Hmmm…. not exactly what I was hoping for…. what I thought this meant was that if I entered a directory in finder that Terminal would choose the same directory. So, what does “focus” in this case mean? I don’t see any difference.
It doesn’t effect PWD, only that the focus of windows follows your mouse cursor. Think old school X11 window managers.
This does bring the window to focus on OS X (10.7) as well. Is there a way to bring focus to the window, and then make it the top window, because right now this tweak just makes window focus, but does not make it the top window. I figure there is a another simple line to make the window the top window. BTW great tweak
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