A lot of the cursor weirdness on macOS comes from the window server owning the cursor and only passing events to active windows.

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igregoryca 8 hours ago | parent [-]

It's kind of nice, though, because you can click anywhere on a window to focus it. If you want to interact with a background window without focusing it, hold Cmd and click.

	▲	wpm 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		On every app but the System Settings app since it is so busted it takes 5 or 6 clicks before it focuses.