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AutoRaise (and focus) a window when hovering over it with the mouse

14 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 3 stories, 11 comments · first 2021-01-12 · latest 2026-04-16

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  1. …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…
    comment by krackers · 2026-04-16 · in Codex for almost everything
  2. …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
    comment by Leftium · 2025-10-12 · in Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS
  3. FWIW, this is now possible albeit with a third party app: https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise
    comment by voltaireodactyl · 2025-09-23 · in I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
  4. …here about what they prioritize and deprioritize for the default user interface experience. [1] https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise
    comment by rifty · 2025-09-16 · in I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
  5. …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
    comment by e12e · 2025-02-09 · in Kanata: Cross-platform multi-layer keyboard remapper with advanced customization
  6. 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.
    comment by i-am-a-fnord · 2024-06-09 · in AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
  7. …barring UI weirdness of macOS. Example. Mousing over another window on the way to the menubar. https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise
    comment by feep · 2024-06-06 · in AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
  8. …to get autoraise and autofocus functionalities without having to rely on yabai for these. https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise
    comment by firexcy · 2023-12-01 · in Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
  9. …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
    comment by e12e · 2023-10-13 · in Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions
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    AutoRaise: Focus follows mouse plus auto raise on macOS
    story by exnz · 2022-09-09 · 1 comment
  11. 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…
    comment by lloeki · 2022-04-26 · in Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
  12. Have you tried AutoRaise? https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise
    comment by Reason077 · 2022-04-26 · in Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
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    Show HN: AutoRaise (and focus) a window when hovering over it with the mouse
    story by diamondo25 · 2021-07-18 · 1 comment
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    AutoRaise: Focus follows mouse and autoraise for macOS
    story by ecliptik · 2021-01-12 · 0 comments