Codex Window Colors
Tell your Codex windows apart with colors
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Details
- External ID
- 1271234
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Codex Window Colors
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Developer Tools, GitHub
Description
Give each Codex Desktop window a color that follows its chat or project. Pick your own colors or use stable automatic ones, then adjust the edge thickness, fade, and opacity. A local macOS utility that runs through Hammerspoon. Requires Hammerspoon, Python 3, and Accessibility permission.
Enrichment
- Niche
- desktop environment and customization software
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- color-coding tool for codex windows
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a lightweight desktop script built on top of Hammerspoon and macOS Accessibility APIs to draw colored borders around designated windows.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 178 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #43 of 179 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 339 days after the earliest competitor.
- Prism · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- codex-usage-badge · github · 2026-09-27 · 41 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- dsh-computer-use_codex-style · github · 2026-09-15 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- AI Desktop Manager · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Lightkeeper · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Halo · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- codex-prompt-optimizer-button · github · 2026-09-18 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Cm-colors –I got tired of manually fixing wcag contrast,so I made this · hn · 2025-12-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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