Yabai: Query mouse position / Query mouse display

[TheNoim]

Yesterday I discovered yabai and I already love it. I now can replace TotalSpaces 2. I just needed a simple way to switch displays without any animation and until yesterday ts2 was my only option.

For my purpose, I implemented this small script: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TheNoim/MacOS/master/yabai-functions.sh

With this script, I can cycle through my spaces on the current desktop. It works great in combination with keyboard shortcuts. It has just one flaw. With yabai I am only able to query the currently focused display. However, sometimes I trigger my space switch shortcut when I am just hovering over my second monitor. A workaround is to use yabai -m config focus_follows_mouse autoraise. But I don't want to focus, I just want to change spaces. I would need an additional field in the json. Something like this:

[{
    "id":10,
    "label":"",
    "index":8,
    "display":2,
    "windows":[],
    "type":"float",
    "visible":0,
    "focused":0, // Mouse is on display 2, but display is not focused
    "native-fullscreen":0,
    "first-window":0,
    "last-window":0,
        "mouse": 1 // Mouse is on display 2
}]

Then I could update the getCurrentDisplay function to:

function getCurrentDisplay() {
    echo $(yabai -m query --spaces | jq 'map(select(.mouse == 1)) | .[0] | .display')
}

Temporary dirty solution:

Use a small swift cli utility https://github.com/TheNoim/MacOS/blob/master/mousePosition/mousePosition/main.swift in combination with echo $(yabai -m query --displays | jq --argjson display "$displayID" 'map(select(.id == $display)) | .[0].index')

[koekeishiya]

On the latest master you can use the mouse selector to query information about displays and/or spaces that currently contain the cursor.

# output list of all spaces that belong to the display that contain the cursor
yabai -m query --spaces --display mouse

# output single space that contain the mouse cursor (focused space of the display that holds the mouse cursor)
yabai -m query --spaces --space mouse

# output the single display that contain the mouse cursor
yabai -m query --displays --display mouse

The above are some examples of what you can do with these.
You can experiment with other permutations if you need more/other info.

[TheNoim]

This is exactly what I was searching for. Already excited for the release. Until then, I will use my workaround cli.

Edit: Until it gets a release, I will keep the issue open.