First and foremost, I want to thank all the new early access users who joined our community on Discord and shared their experience with Overseer! It's exciting to hear so many positive initial impressions, even when encountering some minor hurdles.

That said, my goal is always to provide a delightful experience and I am constantly looking for opportunities to improve Overseer. It's been less than a week since early access launch and the community has already come out the gate swinging with great suggestions. Let's get into them ...

New Audio tile interface

The audio tile received a facelift from the native Chromium audio player to something a bit more refined and inline with Overseer's design system.

Additionally, you can now Loop the current audio track.

Change background color

Change the background color of the current screen to further customize your setup.

Fullscreen and beyond

Overseer previously only ran as a tiled window but there is now a new setting Settings > General > Start in fullscreen to open Overseer as a fullscreen application with no menu bar. You can toggle fullscreen mode with Alt+Enter or by using the new option in the canvas right-click menu.

Too many tabs

Grouping too many tiles together would cause the tab bar to cutoff horizontally. There was no visual indication that there are more tabs to view or browse. I've introduced a very subtle right/left chevron when tabs are clipped that allow you to scroll to the remaining tabs in the list.

New ways to interact with the canvas

In addition to using the mousewheel or trackpad, you can now use standard zoom in/out keyboard shortcuts to zoom in and out of the canvas.

Linux compatibility improvements

A couple users (who use arch btw) reached out after problems with installation and getting Overseer to run properly. They were extremely helpful in debugging some overlooked issues.

This release adds flags to support Wayland and X11 desktop environments.

I can't say Linux is sorted entirely, but I did add a lot more logging into the main and renderer processes so that if future problems arise, I will at least get a bit more detail into what is going wrong.

Changelog

The complete list of features, improvements, and fixes are below. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out.

✨ Features

• Improved Audio tile interface, allow looping and better scrubbing

• Change the Background color of your screens

• Zoom in/out using keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl++/Ctrl+-)

• New setting Settings > General > Start in fullscreen to default open Overseer in fullscreen mode

  • Toggle fullscreen using Alt+Enter or toggle using the canvas right-click menu

• Changelog toast appears after an update, linking directly to this and future articles

🔧 Enhancements

• Add Settings to canvas right-click menu

• Add scroll edges to tab groups to indicate there might be more tabs horizontally

• Changed main/renderer logging to file output for easier debugging in the future

🐛 Bugfixes

• Keep session context across related websites

  • This fixes an issue where Google SSO would not stay signed in when using D&D Beyond

• Spoof Website tile User-Agent to prevent Cloudflare/reCaptcha pages from dismissing/freezing pages

• Text tiles cannot be edited when in a tab group

• Linux users should have an easier time launching the application without needing special flags

📚 Documentation

• Updated Linux installation instructions to highlight several debugging mechanisms

🚀 Performance

• Instruct underlying framework to use less memory (RAM)

• Limit amount of sub-processes per tile