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✅ Tooltips (Hover Menus)

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Tooltips in Wavebox provide quick access to useful information and actions when you hover over a space, group, app, or tab. Below, you’ll find an overview of how to enable, customize, and use them—plus a few troubleshooting tips for common issues.

What Are Tooltips?

Tooltips are handy pop-ups that appear on hover:

  • Space Tooltip: Hover over the circle icons at the top of the webdock. Displays the space name, description and link to Settings.
  • Group Tooltip: Hover over the rounded squares in the webdock. Displays a preview the last 3 visited apps, unread counts and more.
  • App Tooltip: Hover over any app icon in the webdock or tabstrip. Displays a preview the current page, access saved items, and jump to recent history items.
  • Tab Tooltip: Hover over any tab in the tabstrip. Peek at a live thumbnail of the tab, check memory usage, or quickly sleep/pin/mute the tab.

Enable or Disable Tooltips

  • Spaces
    • Go to Settings > General > Tooltips > Show Space Tooltips and toggle ON/OFF
  • Groups & Apps
    • Go to Settings > General > Tooltips > Groups & Apps and choose an option from the dropdown menu:
      • Show in webdock and toolbar
      • Hide all
      • Show only in webdock
      • Show only in toolbar
  • Tabs
    • Go to Settings > General > Tooltips > Tabs in the main WB window and toggle ON/OFF.
    • Tab tooltip thumbnail: toggle ON/OFF

Customize Tooltip Content

  • Settings > General > Tooltips > Hover Delay: Adjust how quickly tooltips appear when you hover over an icon.
  • Settings > General > Tooltips > Group and Apps > Group Tooltips: Toggle ON/OFF each item and drag up/down to reorder them:
    • Thumbnail
    • Fast Actions
    • Notifications & Unread Items
    • Apps in the Group
    • Tabs in the Group
  • Settings > General > Tooltips > Group and Apps > App Tooltips: Toggle ON/OFF each item and drag up/down to reorder them:
    • Thumbnail
    • Fast Actions
    • Notifications & Unread Items
    • Saved Items
    • App History
    • Tabs (belonging to the app)
  • Settings > General > Tooltips > Tabs: Toggle ON/OFF
    • Show tab tooltips
    • Show thumbnail

Quick Controls (All Tooltips)

At the top of each tooltip on the right hand side are Quick Controls.

  • Group Tooltip: Sleep & Mute (everything in the group), shortcut to Group Settings
  • App Tooltip: Sleep & Mute, Split Screen, Space Icon, shortcut to App Settings.
  • Tab Tooltip: Sleep & Mute, Split Screen, Pin.

Saved Items (App Tooltip)

Save links in the app tooltip menu so you can open them at anytime.

Saving an Item

  • Hover over an app icon to see its tooltip.
  • Either: Hover over any item under 'History' and click on the bookmark ribbon to move it to the 'Saved Items' section.
  • Or: Click on the + icon in the 'Saved Items' heading.

Editing the Item

  • Hover over it and click on the pencil icon. From the pop-up window you can;
    • Edit the name
    • Add an icon
    • Change the URL
    • Choose where it opens:
      • Open in App
      • Open in New Tab
      • Open in New Window

Removing a Saved Item

  • Hover over the item under Saved Items, and click on the x icon to remove it.

Fast Actions (Group Tooltip)

Some apps (e.g. Gmail, Google Docs, Notion) have one-click actions available to jumpstart tasks and workflows, even when working in apps in other groups. When available, Fast Actions are shown in the Group tooltip menu.

  • Hover over the group icon to show the tooltip
  • Click the colorful fast action buttons (usually at the top of the tooltip, under the thumbnail). Available actions include:
    • Compose a new Gmail
    • Start a new Google Doc
    • Start a new Sheet spreadsheet
    • Start a new Slides presentation
    • Start a new Google Note
    • Start a new Zoom meeting
    • Create a new Notion page

Troubleshooting

  • No Tooltips Showing
    • Go to Settings > General > Tooltips to ensure each tooltip type is enabled.
  • Sections Missing
    • Check if you’ve toggled off sections like previews, history, or saved items in Settings > General > Tooltips.
  • Hover Delay Annoyances
    • If they appear too quickly or too slowly, adjust the slider for Settings > General > Tooltips > Tooltip Delay to find a comfortable speed.
  • Fast Action Not Available
    • Not all apps support fast actions, contact support for more details about the latest or visit our Supahub to request a feature.