Layouts & display.
Build the dock out of panes, save arrangements as layouts, and open a second dock on a different layout. Text size, density and theme are remembered per device.
Panes
A layout holds up to six panes. Add them from the layout editor.
| Pane | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Chat | Messages, moderation, send as you. |
| Activity | Every event, filterable. |
| Interleaved | Chat plus events in one river. |
| Media | Now playing, queue, transport. |
| Stream info | Title, category, tags, labels. |
Panes can sit side by side in rows, or stack as tabs in one slot. Drag the splitter between them to resize.
The layout editor
Enter edit mode to rearrange. Each pane grows a toolbar with move, group, and remove. Leave edit mode and the toolbar disappears again, so the dock stays out of your way while you are live.
Individual panes can hide their toolbar entirely from the pane settings sheet. When one does, its settings gear floats in the corner instead. Edit mode always shows toolbars regardless, since that is where move and remove live.
Rearranging panes, switching tabs, and switching layouts do not reload them. Chat scrollback and your place in the activity feed survive, so tidying your layout mid-stream costs you nothing.
Layouts and a second dock
Save an arrangement as a layout. You can keep several and switch between them, and rename or duplicate any of them.
Each layout has its own URL, which is your dock URL with ?view= and the layout on the end. That is how you run more than one dock at once: add a second Custom Browser Dock in OBS pointing at a specific layout, and dock it somewhere else in your OBS window. A tall chat panel on the left and a short media strip along the bottom, for example.
Adding ?view= does not make the link safer to share. It carries the same access as the plain dock URL. Keep it private.
Display settings
These are remembered per device, not per channel, so your desktop OBS and a laptop can differ.
| Setting | Options |
|---|---|
| Chat text size | 12 to 22 pixels. |
| Activity text size | 12 to 22 pixels. |
| Density | Compact fits the most history with actions on hover. Cozy adds a little room. Normal has taller rows with action buttons always visible. |
| Theme | Dark, which matches OBS, or Light, or follow the system. |
| Motion | Follow the system reduce-motion setting, or force Reduce motion or Full motion regardless of it. |
| Touch | Follow the system, which turns on for a touchscreen, or force it on to keep hover-only controls visible and grow hit targets, or off. |
Narrow docks
The dock is built to work down to 280 pixels wide. As it narrows, chrome gives up space before content does: strips collapse their buttons to icons and move the rest into an overflow menu, and banners shrink to a single summary line you can tap open. Chat and activity keep their room.