From 42095c06e144833840f51963cad46e91b3dc9aa9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: alexion <contact@alexion.dev>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2026 23:13:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] tmux: highlight window when a bell is received.

---
 .claude/settings.json  | 1 +
 .config/tmux/tmux.conf | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
 create mode 120000 .claude/settings.json

diff --git a/.claude/settings.json b/.claude/settings.json
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..b029f31
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.claude/settings.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/home/alexion/wrk/claude/settings.json
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.config/tmux/tmux.conf b/.config/tmux/tmux.conf
index 35fc763..c478c78 100644
--- a/.config/tmux/tmux.conf
+++ b/.config/tmux/tmux.conf
@@ -49,6 +49,14 @@ set -sg escape-time 10
 
 set -g history-limit 10000
 
+# Flag a background window in the status bar when its Claude Code session
+# rings the terminal bell (permission prompt / task done while unfocused).
+# bell-action=none stops tmux from ever passing the actual BEL through to
+# Alacritty (no beep, no flash) -- monitor-bell's per-window tracking for the
+# status-line highlight is independent of that and keeps working.
+setw -g monitor-bell on
+set -g bell-action none
+
 # Minimal status bar (session + window list only), styled to match the Nord
 # theme already used in alacritty.toml.
 set -g status-position bottom
@@ -60,6 +68,7 @@ setw -g window-status-current-style "bg=#88C0D0,fg=#2E3440,bold"
 setw -g window-status-current-format " #I:#W "
 setw -g window-status-format " #I:#W "
 setw -g window-status-style "fg=#4C566A"
+setw -g window-status-bell-style "bg=#BF616A,fg=#2E3440,bold"
 
 set -g pane-border-style "fg=#3B4252"
 set -g pane-active-border-style "fg=#88C0D0"