The Selected Window Accent Mode is an Emacs package designed to visually distinguish the currently selected window by applying a unique accent color to its fringes, mode line, header line, and margins. ; Quick Start To use left and bottom accent based on the themes highlight colour: (use-package selected-window-accent-mode :config (selected-window-accent-mode 1) :custom (selected-window-accent-fringe-thickness 10) (selected-window-accent-custom-color nil) (selected-window-accent-mode-style 'subtle)) OR define your own colour: (use-package selected-window-accent-mode :config (selected-window-accent-mode 1) :custom (selected-window-accent-fringe-thickness 10) (selected-window-accent-custom-color "#427900") (selected-window-accent-mode-style 'subtle)) OR subtle / theme accent colour with lightening and saturation and tab accent The takes the default highlight colour from the current theme but applies lightening and saturation along with the same colour tab accent. (use-package selected-window-accent-mode :config (selected-window-accent-mode 1) :custom (selected-window-accent-fringe-thickness 20) (selected-window-accent-percentage-darken -10) (selected-window-accent-percentage-desaturate -100) (selected-window-accent-tab-accent t) (selected-window-accent-custom-color nil) (selected-window-accent-mode-style 'subtle)) ; Usage Interactively Toggle the mode on and off =M-x selected-window-accent-mode= A transient map is available (Emacs 28.1+): (eval-after-load 'selected-window-accent-mode '(progn (define-key global-map (kbd "C-c w") 'selected-window-accent-transient))) which will bring up a transient menu The styles that are currently supported : - default - tiling - subtle ;