A YouTube widget for your Windows desktop
Spacedash's YouTube widget shows youtube.com in a tile on your Windows desktop: the real site, where you can sign in, browse and watch. It's free.
Keep a video or a live stream running in a corner of a second monitor while you work.
What it shows
The real YouTube
The live site in a browser view inside the tile, not a list of links.
Any starting page
The home page is youtube.com by default and can be any address, such as a channel or a playlist.
Sound from the widget
Mute and volume for the tile itself, and page zoom to fit a small tile.
A privacy cover
Cover the page until you tap it, for a screen other people can see.
How it works
When Spacedash runs in its own window, the tile is a real browser view with Spacedash's own profile, so signing in to YouTube once keeps you signed in.
The toolbar, tabs and bookmarks are off for YouTube to leave room for the video, and each can be switched on. With the toolbar on, the address bar also searches the web.
Setups that use it
Watch while you work
YouTube on a second monitor with Now Playing and the System monitor beside it.
Stream desk
A live stream in the YouTube tile next to the Twitch widget and the Volume Mixer.
Any other site
The Browser widget is the same tile for any website, and Iframe embeds a page.
What you can set
- Home page
- Where the tile and every new tab start, and where Home takes them.
- Page zoom
- 67% · 80% · 100% · 125%
- Address bar
- Type an address (twitch.tv) to go there, or anything else to search. Off, the toolbar shows the site's name.
- Search with
- Google · Bing · DuckDuckGo · Brave Search
- Tabs
- A strip of tabs over the toolbar: + opens a new tab at the home page, × closes one. Every tab keeps running while another shows. Up to 8; they last until Spacedash restarts.
- Mute button on tabs
- A speaker on each tab: click it to mute that tab, click again to bring the sound back. It works on any tab, also one you're not looking at.
- When a page goes fullscreen
- Widget · Entire screen
- What a video's own fullscreen button fills: this widget, or the whole screen the widget is on.
- Fullscreen bar
- A small bar over the page while it is fullscreen, to switch between Widget and Entire screen or exit. It hides after a few seconds and comes back when you move the pointer over the page.
- Bookmarks
- Row · Menu · Off
- Row: a strip of bookmarks under the toolbar. Menu: a button in the toolbar that lists them over the page.
- Bookmark button
- A star in the toolbar that adds the page you're on, or removes it when it's already a bookmark.
- Site icons
- Each site's own icon on bookmarks and tabs. Off, or when a site has none, its first letter.
- Privacy cover
- Hides the page until you tap the tile, then shows it for a while and hides it again. For pages with numbers or messages you don't want on screen all the time.
- Show for
- 10 seconds · 30 seconds · 1 minute · 5 minutes · 15 minutes · 1 hour
- Sound controls on the tile
- Once it plays sound · Always · Off
- A mute button and a volume slider for this page, at the end of the toolbar. They are for this tile only; the Windows volume is not touched.
- Toolbar
- Back and forward
- Reload
- Home
- Bookmarks
- Cover text
- Mute the page
- Volume
Parts you can restyle
Resize, recolour, change the font of, or hide each part under Customize → Layout.
- Tabs
- Toolbar
- Bookmarks
- Page
Good to know
- A video's own fullscreen button can fill the widget or the whole screen; you choose which.
- Tabs are optional, up to eight, and last until Spacedash restarts.
- Inside iCUE's Widget Mode on the XENEON EDGE, only a YouTube video or playlist link plays, through YouTube's embed player. The full site needs Desktop Mode or a monitor.
- It needs an internet connection. Signing in is optional.
Questions
Is the YouTube widget free?
Yes. YouTube, Browser and Iframe are part of Spacedash Free.
Can I sign in to my YouTube account?
Yes. The tile is a real browser view with its own profile, and it stays signed in.
Can I start on a channel or a playlist?
Yes. Set the home page to any YouTube address.
Does YouTube Premium work?
The tile shows the normal YouTube site, so what you get is what your account gets in a browser.