Floating window and compact mode

When you're meeting in Zoom or Meet, the Sonasi Meetings window can get covered. The two features below help you keep reading the translation.

Floating window

The floating window is a small frame that always stays on top. It shows the same content as the Live screen and follows the display mode you chose.

Open it: click the floating window icon on the control bar (the tooltip says Floating overlay), or use the menu Window → Floating overlay, or the shortcut ⌘⇧O.

• Drag the window by its background to move it. You can resize it (minimum 360 × 180).
• The window appears on every Space and even when another app is full screen.
• The top of the window has a status dot, the timer, and the language pair.
• Hover over the window to freeze scrolling and reread. The line Paused — reading appears, and when you move the pointer away, the window returns to the end.
• If a translation is being read aloud, there's a Mute / Unmute button.

The floating window has no start or stop recording button. Control recording from the main window or the menu bar.

Apple's translation keeps running while the main window is hidden, so you can close the main window completely and keep only the floating window.

Compact mode

Click the two-arrows icon on the control bar (Compact mode) to shrink the main window to its smallest size. Click again (Exit compact mode) to restore the exact previous size and position.

Shrinking a regular window

When the window is narrow, the sidebar shrinks to an icon bar, and it hides completely when the window is very narrow. In that case, navigate with the menu bar.