`focus_follows_mouse` stops working

[Farzad Majidfayyaz]

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 🙁

[Mario]

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

[matthias antierens]

Same here!

[Matheus Fillipe]

Same here.

[Jerome Gallinari]

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

[Farzad Majidfayyaz]

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 🤷

[Souvik]

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

[Souvik]

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

Edit: Stopped working :(

[Fábio Senra Corrêa]

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.

[Farzad Majidfayyaz]

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 🙏🏼