Feature Request: Allow Custom Ordering and Separate Display of Codex Taskbar Icons on Windows
What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
Codex 26.623.30605 (Released 2026-06-25)
What subscription do you have?
ChatGPT Plus 20x
What platform is your computer?
Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26100.0 x64
What issue are you seeing?
On Windows, all running Codex windows are grouped/bundled under a single taskbar icon. This prevents users from:
Dragging and reordering individual Codex windows independently on the Windows taskbar.
Showing each Codex instance as a separate, ungrouped taskbar button (even when Windows taskbar settings allow ungrouping other apps).
Setting a custom window title per Codex session (e.g., naming by project or context) so they can be distinguished at a glance.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Feedback ID: 019ed858-e7a8-7123-a97a-d212af4b7484
What is the expected behavior?
Each Codex window should be able to appear as its own taskbar item (not forced into a single grouped icon), allowing free drag-to-reorder on the taskbar.
Support a per-window or per-session "Rename Window Title" option so multiple Codex instances can be labeled differently (e.g., "Codex – Project A", "Codex – Backend API").
This would let power users arrange their taskbar click order according to personal habit and improve multi-project workflow visibility.
Additional information
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2 Comments
https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/30331#issuecomment-4814975400
Confirming that this remains a significant usability problem in the Codex Windows desktop app.
I routinely keep five or six Codex windows open for different tasks. Windows Task View, Alt+Tab, and the taskbar identify every window only as “ChatGPT,” making them indistinguishable without opening each one and inspecting its contents. This also creates a real risk of entering a prompt into the wrong task.
Codex already has a descriptive title for each task in its sidebar, so that title should be propagated to the native Windows window caption and updated whenever the active task changes or is renamed—for example:
Windows cleanup and RAM upgrade — Codex
Other applications expose their active document, page, or channel this way. This would make multi-window Codex workflows substantially easier to navigate.