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Kervvv
Kervvv

Reputation: 845

Turn Off Auto-Focus in Terminal OS X

Based on these 2 SO questions:

Link 1

Link 2

It seems I have enabled this on my Mac as well. I am not sure how I even enabled this, but I certainly didn't want it. How do I turn it off?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1602

Answers (3)

fletom
fletom

Reputation: 2028

This was also enabled for me seemingly by default. For some reason, the answers around the web that all used -bool false didn't work for me. This is the command that successfully turned it off:

defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string NO

Then restart Terminal.app for it to take effect.

Tested on macOS 10.14.4.

Upvotes: 2

bonzairob
bonzairob

Reputation: 81

It's the first one in Kervvv's answer, at least in El Capitan - just tested. Run it then quit Terminal and reopen.

defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -bool false

Upvotes: 1

Kervvv
Kervvv

Reputation: 845

One of these 3 commands did the trick. I tried all 3, but didn't close and re-open the terminal app, so i'm not sure which one worked. Guess it had to restart for new changes to take effect. I just changed true to false, the number 1 to 2 and yes to no. 

defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -bool false

defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string 2

defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string NO

Upvotes: 0

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