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i3 FAQ - Individual question feedhttps://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:48:18 +0000Disabling cursor warpinghttps://faq.i3wm.org/question/3487/disabling-cursor-warping/When you focus another output, either directly or by focusing a workspace or container in another output, it will warp the mouse cursor to the middle of the newly focused container. I find this to be highly annoying. Is there anything I can do to disable this behaviour? Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:44:29 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3487/disabling-cursor-warping/Answer by Pinyaka for When you focus another output, either directly or by focusing a workspace or container in another output, it will warp the mouse cursor to the middle of the newly focused container. I find this to be highly annoying. Is there anything I can do to disable this behaviour? https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3487/disabling-cursor-warping/?answer=3488#post-id-3488You could disable the focus following the mouse by adding `focus_follows_mouse no` to your i3 configuration file.Thu, 06 Mar 2014 16:06:55 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3487/disabling-cursor-warping/?answer=3488#post-id-3488Comment by Pinyaka for You could disable the focus following the mouse by adding <code>focus_follows_mouse no</code> to your i3 configuration file. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3487/disabling-cursor-warping/?comment=4833#comment-4833Does `focus_follows_mouse no` still prevent the focus from moving to whatever workspace the mouse is hovering over?Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:48:18 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3487/disabling-cursor-warping/?comment=4833#comment-4833Comment by TonyC for You could disable the focus following the mouse by adding <code>focus_follows_mouse no</code> to your i3 configuration file. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3487/disabling-cursor-warping/?comment=4732#comment-4732`focus_follows_mouse` no longer disables pointer warping. Use the `mouse_warping` config option.Sun, 12 Oct 2014 01:14:07 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3487/disabling-cursor-warping/?comment=4732#comment-4732Comment by xenomachina for You could disable the focus following the mouse by adding <code>focus_follows_mouse no</code> to your i3 configuration file. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3487/disabling-cursor-warping/?comment=4716#comment-4716I don't have enough karma to edit: the setting is actually `focus_follows_mouse` (note the extra s). It does disable warping on recent versions (I'm using 4.7.2).Thu, 09 Oct 2014 00:29:07 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3487/disabling-cursor-warping/?comment=4716#comment-4716Comment by mkaito for You could disable the focus following the mouse by adding <code>focus_follows_mouse no</code> to your i3 configuration file. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3487/disabling-cursor-warping/?comment=3490#comment-3490The other way around. I don't want the mouse following focus.Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:04:57 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3487/disabling-cursor-warping/?comment=3490#comment-3490Comment by TonyC for You could disable the focus following the mouse by adding <code>focus_follows_mouse no</code> to your i3 configuration file. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3487/disabling-cursor-warping/?comment=3494#comment-3494In the next version, this will also disable pointer warpingSat, 08 Mar 2014 18:38:19 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3487/disabling-cursor-warping/?comment=3494#comment-3494Answer by TonyC for When you focus another output, either directly or by focusing a workspace or container in another output, it will warp the mouse cursor to the middle of the newly focused container. I find this to be highly annoying. Is there anything I can do to disable this behaviour? https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3487/disabling-cursor-warping/?answer=4731#post-id-4731From the userguide: http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_mouse_warping > With the mouse_warping option, you can control when the mouse cursor should be warped. none disables warping entirely, whereas output is the default behavior described above. Example: mouse_warping noneSun, 12 Oct 2014 01:12:54 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3487/disabling-cursor-warping/?answer=4731#post-id-4731