# Would it be possible to add a "Focus Follow Mouse" feature **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Requests\ **Created:** [June 12, 2018, 12:03am UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679 "2018-06-12T00:03:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leon\_Waldman](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/leon_waldman/32/395_2.png) [@Leon\_Waldman](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Leon_Waldman)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 12:03am UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/1 "2018-06-12T00:03:06Z")
Hi, I would like to know if it would be possible to add a "Focus Follow Mouse" feature as seen on Linux window managers. It works in a way that when the mouse pointer is over a window that window automatically get focused without the need to click on it. You may be able to hook on the "scrolling" sub-system as the mouse already scroll the window bellow the mouse pointer without the need for clicking on the window. ---
**Author:** ![Worie](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/worie/32/35_2.png) [@Worie](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Worie)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/2 "2018-06-12T16:45:06Z")
You could use a MySIMBL for that (winbuddy from w0lfschild I guess or some other plugin) ---
**Author:** ![HDG](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/hdg/32/10865_2.png) [@HDG](https://community.folivora.ai/u/HDG)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/3 "2020-03-07T01:32:53Z")
+1! is there a "mouse stopped moving" trigger? If so, could add one of the following actions: **⌃⌥-click** (control-option-click) - switches focus without raising window **⌘-click** (command-click) - clicks in window without switching focus > ---
**Author:** ![windoverwater](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/c2a13f/32.png) [@windoverwater](https://community.folivora.ai/u/windoverwater)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2020, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/4 "2020-05-31T12:56:21Z")
Question - is it possible to add an "Extras" feature similar to "Move windows" and "Resize windows" that simply did not do either? But with the "Bring window under cursor to front ..." enabled, this new feature would raise the window to the front. That way a user can decide how the mouse movement across windows works (with respect to the stackoverflow article referenced above - [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/98310/focus-follows-mouse-plus-auto-raise-on-mac-os-x](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/98310/focus-follows-mouse-plus-auto-raise-on-mac-os-x)) by selecting the modifier keys prior to moving the mouse. The default movement (with no modifier keys) would be native mac (for the UX reasons mentioned on stackoverflow). p.s. this is a little bit removed from this UX topic but somewhat related - it would be a nice additional configuration option to allow a user to select the color, thickness, and translucency of a border around the window with focus. This way a user can select the extent of an additional visual cue of which window has focus. This would be convenient even when the mouse is not moving. Thanks so much! (yes there are apps for this, but having it here and integrated would be nice) ---
**Author:** ![rowdyroadrunners](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@rowdyroadrunners](https://community.folivora.ai/u/rowdyroadrunners)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2022, 8:54pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/5 "2022-04-27T20:54:27Z")
Any chance of getting this feature added? There is a utility that does it [GitHub - sbmpost/AutoRaise: AutoRaise (and focus) a window when hovering over it with the mouse](https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise), but would be much better if we could just use BTT for this. BTT already has the pieces to do this, like auto-raise, so it would seem to be mostly implementing a UI to configure it. Auto-raise after delay is what I'm looking for. ---
**Author:** ![rowdyroadrunners](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@rowdyroadrunners](https://community.folivora.ai/u/rowdyroadrunners)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2023, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/6 "2023-09-08T20:21:12Z")
Bring moving window to front. Please use same functionality to implement this. ![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/a/d/ad8cbe31eeb365b2c7a6c8e81a8f8934749caafd.png) ---
**Author:** ![rowdyroadrunners](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@rowdyroadrunners](https://community.folivora.ai/u/rowdyroadrunners)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 10:37pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/8 "2024-04-19T22:37:36Z")
Any chance of this being implemented? Seems like low-hanging fruit. ---
**Author:** ![lukasvac](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/lukasvac/32/42711_2.png) [@lukasvac](https://community.folivora.ai/u/lukasvac)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 8:35am UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/9 "2024-12-12T08:35:00Z")
I’ll add my question to this. On Windows and Linux, I’m used to being able to click links and buttons in a secondary window right away. However, on Mac, I first need to click the window to bring it into focus. It would be great to have an option for the focus to change directly under the cursor. ---
**Author:** ![ngan](https://community.folivora.ai/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/4da419/32.png) [@ngan](https://community.folivora.ai/u/ngan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/10 "2024-12-12T14:25:19Z")
Try AutoRaise in github for now... ---
**Author:** ![xidiot](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/xidiot/32/27204_2.png) [@xidiot](https://community.folivora.ai/u/xidiot)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 5:42pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/11 "2024-12-12T17:42:43Z")
I've also recently wondered the same. I think if there's a way to use click and not tap (annotation 2 in the screenshot) in the following trigger maybe it will work: ![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/1/4/14f368197daf4f049bb8ee7501e64c1176630c5e.png) I've tested with the above setup, but since it is a tap, there are some miss-clicks happening, otherwise I think it is working. ---
**Author:** ![Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/andreas_hegenberg/32/39221_2.png) [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Andreas_Hegenberg)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/12 "2024-12-12T17:48:40Z")
maybe I will add a simple trigger „hovered window did change“, which could be used in combination with the „activate hovered window“ action. However I don’t really want to get into all the edge cases of a real „focus follows mouse“ ---
**Author:** ![lukasvac](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/lukasvac/32/42711_2.png) [@lukasvac](https://community.folivora.ai/u/lukasvac)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 6:44pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/13 "2024-12-12T18:44:42Z")
Constantly checking whether a window is in focus might consume too much CPU time. However, I thought of a potentially more efficient solution. A condition could be set so that if I click in a window and that window is inactive, it would act as a double-click. The first click activates the focus, and the second click presses the button/link, etc. It wouldn’t work quite as seamlessly since buttons or links wouldn’t highlight on hover, but it would save one click. 🙂 Do you think that could work? ---
**Author:** ![Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/andreas_hegenberg/32/39221_2.png) [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Andreas_Hegenberg)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2024, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/14 "2024-12-12T18:53:56Z")
there are too many edge cases for this to work properly. For example apps can decide per view item whether they allow „unfocused clicks“, cmd+ click always „goes through“ etc. ---
**Author:** ![CarlosUnch](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/carlosunch/32/19129_2.png) [@CarlosUnch](https://community.folivora.ai/u/CarlosUnch)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2025, 11:59am UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/15 "2025-02-24T11:59:08Z")
Was this implemented? Not sure I'm looking at the right place in advanced trigger conditions. The goal is the same as others here I think, save a click when moving the mouse to other windows when using Window Snapping setup. ---
**Author:** ![jedmund](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/jedmund/32/38286_2.png) [@jedmund](https://community.folivora.ai/u/jedmund)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 6:43am UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/16 "2025-03-25T06:43:08Z")
BetterMouse has clickthrough and I was looking for another tool to do this when I'm not at my desk. It's pretty disappointing that BetterTouchTool can't or won't do this despite how much praise it gets. Cmd+Click is good-to-know, but I do not want to learn and remember a shortcut, I want to click and focus a window. ---
**Author:** ![Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/andreas_hegenberg/32/39221_2.png) [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Andreas_Hegenberg)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 6:45am UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/17 "2025-03-25T06:45:20Z")
I have seen many posts about people complaining about all the subtle edge cases where BetterMouses approach causes issues and breaks things - especially in situations where users are not even aware the issue is caused by the BetterMouse feature. That’s exactly why I don’t plan to implement this. ---
**Author:** ![jedmund](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/jedmund/32/38286_2.png) [@jedmund](https://community.folivora.ai/u/jedmund)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/18 "2025-03-25T21:46:18Z")
Thanks for the response. I'll find another tool then. ---
**Author:** ![Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/andreas_hegenberg/32/39221_2.png) [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Andreas_Hegenberg)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2025, 8:07am UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/19 "2025-03-26T08:07:49Z")
Why not use BetterMouse? I think it's the best for this. ---
**Author:** ![Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/andreas_hegenberg/32/39221_2.png) [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Andreas_Hegenberg)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 9:40pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/20 "2026-08-23T21:40:52Z")
Oh well, after I received another request for this feature today, I think it's really something users want 😅. So I got over my concerns and added a first version of this in 6.750 alpha (uploading now). You can enable it here: ![image](https://community.folivora.ai/uploads/default/original/3X/f/f/ff508596a7b300e509a591b9b79625beee6e6508.webp) (close the BTT settings window for best results) ---
**Author:** ![CarlosUnch](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/carlosunch/32/19129_2.png) [@CarlosUnch](https://community.folivora.ai/u/CarlosUnch)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679/21 "2026-08-24T12:45:29Z")
Ah I love it. Thanks so much for adding it. I'll keep testing to see if there's some weirdness to it, but so far it seems like a keeper. EDIT: One thing that could be improved, IMHO, is that this is triggered by windows and not only different apps. For example, different windows in Finder don't follow the focus. [Next page](https://community.folivora.ai/t/would-it-be-possible-to-add-a-focus-follow-mouse-feature/1679.md?page=2)