Bug 503638

Summary: Add option for pointer to move with focus
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Noland Nichols <noltogreen2187>
Component: inputAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: duha.bugs, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
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OS: Linux   
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Description Noland Nichols 2025-05-02 02:24:17 UTC
Have an option to center the cursor on any newly focused window removing the need to drag your cursor over.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-05-02 15:37:23 UTC
Can you describe the use case for this?
Comment 2 Noland Nichols 2025-05-02 18:47:41 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> Can you describe the use case for this?

For me the use case is switching to a window on the second monitor using my keyboard, but then having to drag over the cursor instead of it already being on the window.

This could be even better for 3+ monitor setups, with switching between a window from the left-most monitor to the right-most monitor and vice versa.

Also laptops with an external display with someone using the track pad on a lower sensitivity for precision.

This behavior is also just what I'm used to coming from using sway for a while with the mouse_warping variable.

Also to add to the feature request, it would be better for it to have an option to choose between moving the cursor when changing window focus, or when just changing the screen focus.