Detaching the panels
The toolbar and the transcript can leave the HUD and become windows you place anywhere.
MiPrep starts as one stack: the answer panel, with the toolbar along its bottom and the transcript beside it. On one screen that is the right default — it moves as a unit and there is nothing to arrange.
On two screens, or on a call where the interviewer's window sits where the toolbar does, it is not. The toolbar and the transcript can each become their own window, positioned anywhere, and dock back when you want the stack again.
What can detach
| Window | Detaches | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Answer panel | No | This is the one you read while looking at the camera. It stays where you put it, and it is already its own window. |
| Toolbar | Yes | The controls do not need to be near the answer. Park them on a second monitor and the HUD gets smaller. |
| Transcript | Yes | Useful beside the interviewer's window rather than beside the answer. |
The answer panel has no detach button on purpose — there is nothing to detach it from.
How
Each detachable panel carries a ⧉ toggle. Click it and the panel becomes a free-floating window you can drag by its header. Click ⊟ on the detached window to dock it back.
While detached:
- Drag it by the header — the whole header is the handle, not just a title bar.
- Resize it from the grip at the bottom-right. That grip only exists while detached; docked, the panel is sized by the stack.
- The position is remembered. Detach the transcript, move it, quit, and it comes back where you left it.
The transcript stops following the HUD
Docked, the transcript is tethered: it sits flush against the HUD and re-positions itself whenever the HUD moves. That is deliberate — two panels drifting apart reads as a bug.
Detached, that tether is off. Moving the HUD no longer drags the transcript along, which is the entire point, but it does mean the two can end up far apart on a big display. Docking re-tethers it instantly.
Every window is still invisible to screen capture
There is no configuration for this and no way to detach a panel into an unprotected window.
When to bother
Most sessions do not need it. Two cases where it earns the click:
- Second monitor. Toolbar and transcript on the spare display, answer panel on the one your camera is above. Nothing overlaps the call.
- A narrow shared window. If you are screen-sharing an editor that needs the full width, docking everything into one stack and moving it off to the side is easier than arranging three things — but if you have already arranged them, detached positions survive.