`focus_follows_mouse` stops working

[farzadmf]

Hi, the foucs_follows_mouse is a SUPER important feature to me (I've set it to autofocus).

After the recent yabai update, the feature seems to be very unreliable, and it stops working.

Yesterday, I noticed that when I was focusing Chrome, it stops working, so I closed Chrome and re-opened, and it was fine. But, today, after restarting my computer, it just stops working 2 seconds after I restart yabai.

I must add that this might be coming from MacOS itself, since my alternate solution (AutoRaise) seems to not be working either.

Is there any way I can help debug this issue? It broke my whole flow of using stupid MacOS 🙁

[supermar1010]

I have the same issue, my workaround rn is to have a shell script execute yabai -m config focus_follows_mouse autofocus every 60 seconds :D that works perfectly so far

For fish:

while True; yabai -m config focus_follows_mouse autofocus; sleep 60; end

[matthiasantierens]

Same here!

[matheusfillipe]

Same here.

[jgallinari]

Ended up doing the same as @supermar1010 because can't live without, but it bothers me... For zsh:

❯ for ((;;))source ~/.yabairc && sleep 60

with .yabairc containing yabai -m config focus_follows_mouse autofocus

[farzadmf]

I think (not 100% sure TBH) that if I run yabai from the command line (basically do a yabai --stop-service and "manually" run it using yabai (or yabai -V of you want to see the logs), it seems to be working fine.

The reason I said I "think" it's working is that, for now, I have to be single monitor (and I have a single window per monitor), so I can't fully test it for now

EDIT: well, I spoke too soon; it's not working, so I think I also need to go the yabai -m config ... route 🤷

[dalsvk]

same here, it stops working after a few seconds :(

[dalsvk]

Upgrading to 14.5 beta seems to have fixed it for me, for now!

Edit: Stopped working :(

[fabiosenracorrea]

14.4.1 here, same thing. Configured the script to run every 60s and on startup and its now working properly. Didnt want to do this, but can't live without it.

[farzadmf]

You guys are too patient, I'm doing it every 2s 😆

[zannis]

Thanks for the fix guys, it was driving me crazy, hope this gets fixed soon 🙏🏼

[puchupala]

Seem like a perfect use for cron job. I set a cron job to run every minute.

# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# |  .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# |  |  .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# |  |  |  .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# |  |  |  |  .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7)  OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# |  |  |  |  |
# *  *  *  *  *  command to be executed
# *  *  *  *  *  command --arg1 --arg2 file1 file2 2>&1
* * * * * /opt/homebrew/bin/yabai -m config focus_follows_mouse autofocus

[farzadmf]

@puchupala I've been creating cronjobs for different things, but for some reason, didn't think of using one for this; thank you for the reminder!

[jgallinari]

I think we're good with Sonoma 14.5 😌

[tiago-garcia-deel]

seems to happen more frequently to me ever since MacOS 14.5

[ognistik]

Since someone else mentioned it happened when clicking links inside the browser (I figured in my case it happened with Arc), adding a signal to my yabairc seems to work and I find it better than having to run code every minute or so.

yabai -m signal --add app="^Arc$" event=window_title_changed action="yabai -m config focus_follows_mouse autoraise"

[alber70g]

I'm totally guessing here but could it be related to this somehow? Now that yabai is responding to more events, the OS is not happy with that?

https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/1958#issuecomment-1994444380