Ignoring windows for mouse_follows_focus via rules

[dominiklohmann]

I'd like to be able to ignore windows for mouse_follows_focus via rules.

Rationale: iStat Menus is unusable on Big Sur, because its menubar dropdown windows now trigger mouse_follows_focus.

Ideally, a rule like yabai -m rule --add='^iStat Menus Status$' mouse_follows_focus=off would allow for selectively enabling or disabling mouse_follows_focus, overriding the default set by yabai -m config mouse_follows_focus on|off.

[koekeishiya]

Fixed on master.

[majordoobie]

@dominiklohmann Hey! Were you able to make a rule for iStat? I cannot seem to make it stop freaking out. This is what I have:

yabai -m rule --add app="^iStat Menus Status$" manage=off sticky=off mouse_follo    ws_focus=off

[peppy]

I uninstalled iStat Menus due to a memory leak, but this worked for me when I was using it:

yabai -m rule --add app="iStat Menus.*" manage=off mouse_follows_focus=off

[majordoobie]

Thanks for the reply! But no dice. I was not aware of any leaks... What are you using now?

[peppy]

If you're seeing issues specifically with the mouse_follows_focus part, make sure to rebuild from latest master as an issue with this flag was fixed very recently (#1267).

The memory leak for me was with very specific to AMD GPUs, and saw a constant vRAM leak over hours until it would hard crash my system (narrowed down to when iStat Menus was visible in the menu bar). Probably not relevant to most users. I have no need for a replacement, although I did come across this app recently.

[majordoobie]

Cheers! An update is what I needed!