Focus a window by hovering over it with the mouse

Discussion & Questions
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Is it possible to use BetterTouchTool to pass focus to the window under the cursor? It’s important that the window doesn’t pop up to the front, but remains at the same level. If there are other windows above it, they should stay above it, while the window underneath gets the focus.

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This is not possible with BTT.

Maybe something could be done by using ctrl+opt+click, which indeed can focus a window without raising it.

You can cmd+click to interact with a background window to execute tasks in it.

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There is AutoRaise app GitHub - sbmpost/AutoRaise: AutoRaise (and focus) a window when hovering over it with the mouse
This app can do focus and can do raise separately.
The issue is that AutoRaise has some bugs and looks like is not maintained any more.
I thought that i can replace AutoRaise with BetterTouchTool

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  • EXPERIMENTAL_FOCUS_FIRST: Enabling this flag adds support for first focusing the hovered window before actually raising it. Or not raising at all if the -delay setting equals 0. This is an experimental feature. It relies on undocumented private API calls. As such there is absolutely no guarantee it will be supported in future OSX versions.

I think that’s the main problem, this is not officially supported by macOS and has stopped working in macOS Sequoia as far I know

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Is it possible to make a screen active on mouse hover?
I have several monitors and need to make active top app on that monitor where is the cursor