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Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.
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[feature request] Shortcut(s) for toggling experimental features #739

Open trey-pindrop opened 6 years ago

trey-pindrop commented 6 years ago

System

What's the problem?

I'd like to be able to turn on or off experimental features (like focus-follows-mouse) with a keyboard shortcut. My intent is to have Keyboard Maestro turn them on or off based on what window has focus.

How can it be reproduced?

n/a, this is a feature request.

What applications are involved?

Primarily, Google Chrome and Chromium. If I could turn off FFM whenever I activate one of these windows, that would solve at least 90 percent of my problems with FFM.

Has anything fixed it, even temporarily?

I can leave FFM on, but extension-related dialogs are difficult to navigate in Chrome/Chrome with FFM enabled.

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ianyh commented 6 years ago

If you are specifically talking about focus-follows-mouse then this is a duplicate of #395

trey-pindrop commented 6 years ago

Ian,

For my needs, yes, focus-follows-mouse is what I aim to be able to configure a shortcut for. But I think any experimental feature should be able to be toggled in this fashion. And make the shortcuts configurable like the rest of them.

Trey

On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 05:24:43PM -0700, Ian Ynda-Hummel wrote:

If you are specifically talking about focus-follows-mouse then this is a duplicate of [1]#395

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  1. https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst/issues/395
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trey-pindrop commented 4 years ago

@ianyh This is still an issue. Especially in Chrome, with FFM extension pop-up windows disappear if the mouse moves the slightest bit when you click on the extension icon. Even the star/bookmark this page pop-up menu disappears if the mouse moves even one pixel.

Ideally that pop-up disappearing with FFM enabled would be fixed, but I understand that's a hard problem. I'm happy to disable FFM manually, temporarily when I need to access one of those pop-up windows. This GitHub issue is only asking for a way to configure a keyboard shortcut to toggle FFM on or off, without having to load the Amethyst preferences panel which takes focus away from what I'm actually trying to do in that popup. My attention span is quite limited, and there's always the possibility I might forget what I'm trying to do with such context switches.

Having a way to toggle FFM via keyboard shortcut would make life a lot easier for me. I love FFM otherwise.

nahtnam commented 4 years ago

I am having this issue too. When using top-bar applications such as Fantastical or Meeter, when you move your mouse on the floating window it disappears. Would be nice if I could just type a keyboard shortcut to turn it off an on

trey-pindrop commented 4 years ago

I've created a Keyboard Maestro macro that does it, but it's not the best solution. It relies on the Preferences window to show up in the right place, and that the Mouse tab has to be selected. Even then the macro isn't 100 percent effective every time I trigger it.

I've attached the KM macro I have for this, perhaps someone might find it useful.

Toggle Focus Follows Mouse.kmmacros.xml.gz