---
title: Indicators
description: Yabar's stack indicators in three styles, and where each goes.
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/yabar/stacks/indicators
---

# Indicators
One indicator per window of a stack, in stack order, beside the stack. The window on top is marked in the accent colour
while its stack has focus; the others are dimmed, more so when focus is elsewhere.

| Style                                                                                           |                                                                                                                        |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Icons**: the app's icon on a tile.                                                            | ![Icons down the left of a stack of four](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/yabar/images/shots/indicators/icons.jpg) |
| **Pills**: a slim pill per window.                                                              | ![Pills down the left of a stack](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/yabar/images/shots/indicators/pills.jpg)         |
| **Tabs (i3)**, the default: a tab per window with its icon and title, across the top or bottom. | ![Tabs across the top of a stack](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/yabar/images/shots/indicators/tabs.jpg)          |

- **Click** an indicator to focus its window.
- **Middle-click** one to close its window.
- Hover for the app and title.


## Placement

Settings → Stacks → **Placement**:
- **Screen edge side** (the default): the side where the stack meets the screen, read from its neighbours; for a stack
  as wide as the screen, left; for one with windows on both sides, the nearer half of its display.
- **Left**, **Right**, **Top** or **Bottom**.

Tabs only run along the top or the bottom. Whatever you choose, a side that faces another window gives way to one that
faces the screen ([Room](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/yabar/stacks/room)). Each display or labelled space can have its own style ([Profiles](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/yabar/layouts/profiles)).