Provide a "focus-follow-mouse" setting

[guillaumeportails]

I am used for years (X11 times) with focus following the mouse, instead of having to click to type (which is slow, and wears).

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edit from Henning Dieterichs (@hediet):
Feature description: As you move your mouse over different sections of the VS Code interface—such as editors, the terminal, or sidebars—the focus would shift accordingly, enabling immediate interaction.

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[Souravgoswami]

This feature will be very handy particularly for Linux users like me who has the habit of enabling the focus follows mouse feature in the window manager...

As said clicking on the terminal is weird and slow. Editors like Geany has this feature to enable focus follows mouse setting. VSCode is not only about Windows, but it also supports Linux, Unix and Mac. It should have such feature, which will save a second each time I want to switch to the terminal or other parts within VSCode.

This is also mandatory in cases where you have selected a text, clicked on the terminal, and you can't modify the text without:

• Closing the terminal
• Clicking on the editor again, and then selecting back the test.

Most of the time, I ended up following point 2, which doesn't give me a good workflow...

Here's an example, you can't just move your mouse and press tab to indent the text:

[chapmanjacobd]

This is not only a Linux issue but a Windows one as well

https://superuser.com/a/1209478/76968

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[benlk]

It's also a Mac issue; Terminal.app has this as a configuration via the defaults interface: https://osxdaily.com/2011/04/18/terminal-focus-follow-mouse-mac/

[seritools]

Would love to see this!

Windows supports it (although it can only enabled via WinAPI or registry changes), Windows Terminal also supports it since 1.7. Now only VSCode needs it for switching focus between terminal(s), open editors, and the sidebar/toolbar elements.

[RayKoopa]

Would really like to see whatever pane being under the mouse pointer getting the focus. Got used to it a lot in Blender.

[danky78]

I would love to have this. I use it for all my terminals and I always forget to click the integrated terminal in vscode, its very annoying.
I know this must be a hard to implement feature.
Thanks code team for the good work you are doing! :)