qunying/x-mouse

Microsoft Windows CLI utility to manage the active window tracking/raising settings. This is known as x-mouse behavior or focus follows mouse on Unix and Linux systems.

x-mouse

This a very simple CLI program to control the mouse behaviour on Windows.

I was searching for a method to make the mouse on Windows to mimic the focus follow mouse behaviour in X11. And found this program X-Mouse Controls, but when I tried to run it, it requires to bring in the .NET dependency.

For such a simple task, I would rather not to bring in a whole .NET runtime. So I serched around and found that it is very simple by calling a single win32 function SystemParametersInfoW with various parameters to get the job done.

Hence born this simple program. It is developed under MSYS2 enviornment and compiled with make and gcc. It is a single/simple executable that does not need to be installed. It could be run in the CMD shell or PowerShell.

The program by default prints out the current settings when run without argument:

   ./x-mouse.exe
   Window tracking: on
   Window raising : off
   Tracking Delay : 50ms

Run it with "x-mouse -h" will print out the usage:

   ./x-mouse.exe -h
   Usage: x-mouse [arguments]
      --win-tracking on/off   Set Windows tracking on/off.
      --win-raising  on/off   Set Windows raising on/off.
      --delay        NUM      Set Windows tracking delay (0~3000ms).

   -h/?,--help                This help.