Just downloaded Nexus Dock on my new laptop, never used it before, but think it looks fantastic. There's one or two things I'm hoping to do to go for a very functional, minimalist aesthetic however.

On the dock I'd like to completely disable all mouse-over settings. Currently, I get a bubble which gives some extra information about the app with a Title, company, file version, file size etc.

Any way to completely disable this?

Also, I have Nexus dock completely take over from windows task bar, but one feature I used very regularly was the click in the bottom right hand corner of the screen to show desktop. Is there any similar function for this with Nexus? As I have completely disabled my Windows task bar.


One last thing, less of a big deal. Is there any way to enable the usual Windows 10 option when right clicking on an icon in the dock. So far, I have managed to make it look very similar to the Windows 10 menu, but I'd just like it to be exactly the same with fewer options.

I assume you are running the free version of Nexus. In that case:

Preferences -> Behavior tab -> More Options button -> Show balloon information tooltips...



You can add a 'Show Desktop' Internal Command to the dock.

Right click the dock -> Insert New Dock Item -> Internal Command -> Desktop -> Show Desktop

You can also add a hotkey in the Item Properties dialog to execute the item via the keyboard (but, of course, pressing WIN + D would have the same effect).

If you were running Winstep Xtreme you would be able to use the "hotspots" feature of NextSTART to do this via a screen corner bump with the mouse pointer.



I assume you mean in terms of content.

Some options in the right click menu are needed to manage that item in the dock, most others (e.g. Send to, Open With) are retrieved from the extended Explorer context menu itself.

If you want fewer options (only the basic needed by Nexus to manage the item) then

Preferences -> Behavior tab -> change "Show full right-click context menu options" to "Never". You can still press the SHIFT key while right clicking an item in the dock to get the full menu.

If you (also) mean aesthetically, then the NextSTART component of Winstep Xtreme would allow you to use different themes/visuals for the right click context menus. Winstep Xtreme has its own version of the Windows taskbar, but since you do not want that, with Winstep applications being completely modular you could simply turn the NextSTART taskbar off (and still take advantage of the hotspots, user defined menus and menu themes featured in NextSTART).