Remove the Grey Dock Background Outside OBS

The Problem

If the Dock URL is opened in MELD, the Social Stream desktop app, or another browser container, it may show a large grey rectangle and a bottom menu bar. The Dock is working; its page background is simply not transparent yet.

Setting up Meld for the first time? Follow Use SSN with Meld Studio for chat capture, Browser layers, sizing, and audio.

A Social Stream Ninja Dock displayed as a large grey box over a video because transparency is disabled — The large grey box means the Dock background is still enabled.

Turn On These Two Settings

Open Social Stream Ninja settings and find Peamine vestluse ülekate ja juhtdokk.
Expand Bottom Dock Menu Bar and enable Hide menu bar.
Expand Overlay and enable Force transparent background.
Copy the updated Dock URL and replace the old URL in the app where you display it. If it is already open, reload it.

Social Stream Ninja settings with Hide menu bar and Force transparent background enabled — Both blue switches should be on. The session ID in this screenshot has been hidden for privacy.

The updated URL should contain both transparent ja hidemenu. Keep your own session value unchanged.

What You Should See

The grey page and bottom menu disappear. Chat messages remain visible over the video or content behind the Dock.

OBS Browser Sources are transparent by default, so this manual setting is mainly needed for MELD, desktop overlay windows, and other non-OBS browser containers.

If the Grey Box Remains

Confirm the URL you are displaying contains transparent ja hidemenu.
Reload the page or remove and re-add it after replacing the URL.
Leave Translucent page background, Green page background, White page background, Hele teema, ja Tume teema turned off.
Check that the app displaying the URL supports transparent browser backgrounds.