As of 2018 there is a good and reliable way to detect if a browser has a mouse (or similar input device): CSS4 media interaction features which are now supported by almost any modern browser (except IE 11 and special mobile browsers). W3C: The pointer media feature is used to query the presence and accuracy … Read more
You can do it for Terminal.app by issuing the following command at the command line: defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -bool true For X11 apps you can do this: defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm -bool true In Snow Leopard, use this instead: defaults write org.x.X11 wm_ffm -bool true Apparently there’s a program called CodeTek Virtual Desktop that’ll … Read more
Tested on WinXP, Python 2.6 (3.x also tested) after installing pywin32 (pywin32-214.win32-py2.6.exe in my case): import win32api, win32con def click(x,y): win32api.SetCursorPos((x,y)) win32api.mouse_event(win32con.MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN,x,y,0,0) win32api.mouse_event(win32con.MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP,x,y,0,0) click(10,10)
Press shift while selecting with the mouse. This will make mouse selection behave as if mouse=a was not enabled. Note: this trick also applies to “middle button paste”: if you want to paste in vim text that was selected outside, press shift while clicking the middle button. Just make sure that insert mode is activated … Read more