Focus follows mouse breaks when manually moving mouse between multiple windows of the same app
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Description
Bug/Issue - Focus follows mouse breaks if I try to physically move the mouse between different windows of the same application, it stop following focus. It still follows focus if I am using hotkeys with skhd and using yabai commands like `yabai -m window --focus south/east/west/north`. Restarting yabai seems to fix the issue until I encounter multiple windows of the same application, mainly noticing it with multiple windows of Arc and iTerm.
Here's my output from `yabai -V` but this really doesn't show me anything. There was
[yabai_10-25.log](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/22936913/yabai_10-25.log)
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue by physically moving the mouse between multiple Arc or iTerm windows and compare that with focusing windows through skhd and yabai commands. Start by reviewing the attached yabai_10-25.log and the reported yabai -V output. Done means focus follows the mouse reliably between windows of the same application without breaking hotkey-based focus.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c, macos
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100