The Dock and taskbar icon

Claudette’s icon in the Dock (macOS) or on the taskbar (Windows) tells you what your tabs are doing without bringing the window up: how many tabs need you, whether any are working, and whether a usage limit has stopped a task. Linux has no badge or animation. There, notifications are all you get.

The badge

The icon shows the number of tabs that need your input: a waiting permission prompt, question or plan.

  • On Windows it’s an overlay on the taskbar button.
  • On macOS it’s the Dock icon’s badge.

Turn it off with Settings → Notifications → The Dock or taskbar icon → Show how many tabs need you (on by default).

The animation

While tabs work or wait, the icon moves. Settings → Notifications → The Dock or taskbar icon → Animate it while tabs work or wait (on by default) turns it off.

What it shows, most important first:

State Windows (the overlay on the taskbar button) macOS (the whole Dock icon)
A tab needs your input The number of tabs Claudette waves, under the badge’s number
A usage limit has stopped a task and hasn’t reset An hourglass, its sand running slowly down before it turns over Claudette stands by the hourglass
A tab is working Claude’s spark, pulsing Claudette types

The hourglass shows whether or not the task will continue by itself, and goes once the limit resets, a turn starts, or you choose Don’t continue (When a limit stops a task). It comes before tabs working, since the limit stopped a task and the other tabs are likely to run into it too. It never flashes the taskbar, because nothing needs you.

On Windows the overlay holds one image, so the number of tabs needing input comes first, then the hourglass, then the spark. The spark or hourglass comes back once no tab needs input, or at once with the badge off. Windows takes the button’s own icon from the app, so only the overlay can move.

With reduced motion, the icon shows its picture without moving. That’s Settings → Appearance → Motion; see Accessibility.

Flashing

On Windows, when a tab starts needing input while Claudette isn’t in front, the taskbar button flashes until you bring Claudette to the front or no tab needs input any more. It follows A tab needs permission or an answer in Settings → Notifications: turn that off and the button doesn’t flash. The Dock has no flash. The waving does that job.

Settings

Setting Default Where
Show how many tabs need you On Settings → Notifications → The Dock or taskbar icon
Animate it while tabs work or wait On Settings → Notifications → The Dock or taskbar icon
A tab needs permission or an answer (flashing) On Settings → Notifications

See also

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