AutoRaise

Which specific ones though allow you to send input to a window without raising it? People have been trying to do "focus follows mouse [without auto raise]" for a long time on mac, and the synthetic event equivalent to command+click is the only discovered method I'm aware of, e.g. used in https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise There is also this old blog post by Yegge [1] which mentions `AXUIElementPostKeyboardEvent` but there were plenty of bugs with that, and I haven't seen anyone else build on it. I guess the modern equivalent is `CGEventPostToPSN`/`CGEventPostToPid`. I guess it's a good candidate though, perhaps the Sky team they acquired knows the right private APIs to use to get this working. Edit: The thread at [2] also has some interesting tidbits, such as Automator.app having "Watch Me Do" which can also do this, and a CLI tool that

I just discovered RayCast's window manager[1]. - The "cycle 1/2, 2/3, and 1/3" feature is amazing. - As well as optional (CapsLock as) HYPER key[2]. (Still using Magnet for the activation areas) The one thing Rift offers that I needed was: "Focus follows the mouse with auto raise" I managed to find it here: https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise [1]: https://www.raycast.com/core-features/window-management [2]: https://manual.raycast.com/hyperkey

FWIW, this is now possible albeit with a third party app: https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise

> When a window is in the background it doesn't receive clicks, so you have to click on it twice. This is sort of true but the full truth is less straight forward. On unfocused apps you can still send through scrolling and (mostly) perform single clicks with command + click... you can also without focus send single clicks to certain controls the developer has ad hoc allowed 'click through' on... For mouse oriented users I'd recommend trying a focus follows mouse experience like AutoRaise [1]. But I mean, it's not like this solution existing absolves Apple of the broader criticism here about what they prioritize and deprioritize for the default user interface experience. [1] https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise

Fwiw I'm somewhat happy combining AutoRaise for focus-follows-mouse and rectangle for tiling. It's not as good as a dedicated tiling wm on Linux - but it's less terrible than MacOs' mouse/touchpad chauvinism. https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle

There's also https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise which is open source. AutoFocus seems like a proprietary clone in beta that will eventually become paid.

It is, Yabai can do it. I am currently using autoraise. Both work great, barring UI weirdness of macOS. Example. Mousing over another window on the way to the menubar. https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise

You can use a separate utility named “AutoRaise” to get autoraise and autofocus functionalities without having to rely on yabai for these. https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise

I'm not sure they appeal to the same group of users. macOS is IMNHO much worse than GNU/Linux with a proper window manager, much less comfortable to use with multiple desktops, and forces the use of a mouse/trackpad way too much.[1] The m2 can run Linux - but external display support is probably a long way off. So for the user wanting to run Linux - m2 isn't really viable - unless you actually work on it with just the built-in screen - for me that doesn't work ergonomically. I have the m2 - it's not terrible - I suspect I'd prefer one of these. [1] Rectangle and AutoRaise helps a lot, making the UX livable: https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle

https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise then, as mentioned before. Although what you can't do (I think) is having (input) focus on a non-raised window, because that would break the focused-app-is-active-app-hence-menubar (because keyboard shortcuts) model imposed by the window manager.

Have you tried AutoRaise? https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise