Geek Posted April 18, 2011 Posted April 18, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/terminal-focus-follow-mouse1.jpg" alt="Terminal window follow mouse cursor focus in Mac OS X" title="terminal-focus-follow-mouse" width="620" height="392" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-15002" /></p> <p>If you’re coming to <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> from elsewhere in the unix & x11 world, you might be used to the focus of Terminal windows following your mouse cursor. With a little <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/command-line/">command line</a> magic, we can enable this hidden feature in the Mac OS X Terminal.app too, here’s how:</p> <p>Launch the Terminal and enter the following:</p> <p><code>defaults write com.apple.terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES</code></p> <p>You’ll now need to relaunch Terminal.app for changes to take effect. </p> <p>If you don’t like it, you can disable cursor focus by changing YES to NO and reissuing the command:</p> <p><code>defaults write com.apple.terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string NO</code></p> <p>Then relaunch Terminal.app for the click-to-focus default setting to be enabled again.</p> <p>Finally, If you’re wondering what my super awesome background picture is, it’s the <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/29/8-bit-pixelated-mac-os-x-aurora-wallpaper/">8-bit pixelated aurora wallpaper</a>.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/AbfK14ddGZ1bqoeONGLwyMnk_-c/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/AbfK14ddGZ1bqoeONGLwyMnk_-c/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/AbfK14ddGZ1bqoeONGLwyMnk_-c/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/AbfK14ddGZ1bqoeONGLwyMnk_-c/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=DRx_grq84NU:6GMJ6NmClco:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=DRx_grq84NU:6GMJ6NmClco:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=DRx_grq84NU:6GMJ6NmClco:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=DRx_grq84NU:6GMJ6NmClco:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=DRx_grq84NU:6GMJ6NmClco:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=DRx_grq84NU:6GMJ6NmClco:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=DRx_grq84NU:6GMJ6NmClco:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/DRx_grq84NU" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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