mkaito
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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?

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answered Oct 12 '14

TonyC
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From the userguide: http://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#mousewarping

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 none

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answered Mar 6 '14

Pinyaka
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updated Oct 13 '14

Michael
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You could disable the focus following the mouse by adding focus_follows_mouse no to your i3 configuration file.

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The other way around. I don't want the mouse following focus.

mkaito (Mar 7 '14)edit

In the next version, this will also disable pointer warping

TonyC (Mar 8 '14)edit

I 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).