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Controling X11 Focus Follows Mouse – OS X

Filed Under Computers, Mac on August 18, 2005 at 1:48 pm

GIMP on OSX comes with a little program to enable X11 Focus Follows Mouse on OSX. This means that all you have to do to focus an X11 Window is to move your mouse over it. Sounds great so I ran the program, turns out it isn’t so great and is in fact REALLY annoying. Does the GIMP ship with a program to turn X11 Focus Follows Mouse off again? Hell no, that would just be far too considerate of them!

However, fear not, some googling lead me to the answer, to turn it off just run the following from your command prompt:

defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm -bool false

No prizes for guessing how to turn it back on or for how to set it for other apps!

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6 Responses to “Controling X11 Focus Follows Mouse – OS X”

  1. Michael Potter on December 18th, 2006 8:56 pm

    You saved my life! I’ve been trying to find a way to disable this annoying feature ever since I foolishly enabled it … Programs should ALWAYS have a means to undo changes like this. Sheesh. Thanks!

  2. Rachel on January 12th, 2007 6:38 pm

    Thank you! Thank you!

  3. Ryan on February 12th, 2007 6:55 pm

    I LOVE YOU!!! THANK YOU!!!

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  5. Richard on June 27th, 2007 3:32 am

    HALLELUYA!!! THANK YOU! :) :) :)

  6. Vincent on January 15th, 2008 10:31 pm

    Thanks a bunch!
    I was looking for an option to turn it on in Leopard.
    That worked with:
    defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm -bool true
    :)

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