[Originally written by someone not me. Probably Lulu Lemon or Dash Riprock, idk. Look, it was on the old site, what more do you want from me?]

This guide walks you though configuring Mumble’s overlay, an on-screen display of who is talking in mumble.

Now, I know what you’re saying, “That’s totally gonna be annoying and in the way.” Well that’s why we’re here! Mumble allows for a lot of configuration and it’s quite easy to do.

Let’s get started!

Right, so, first things first, open up the options by clicking the configuration button and heading to the overlay tab.



You should see something like this:



First, let’s make a quick quality-of-life adjustment.

Mumble can get pretty crowded at times, so I like to filter out the people who aren’t talking. You do this by right-clicking near the little red dot and selecting “filter”. The filters are all very self-explanatory and you can even configure the ‘active time’ — the time an icon displays on screen — for the list of mumble users. I like to use “Talking and recently active” just in case I missed someone say something.

Now that there is less clutter, lets configure what’s left.

For those of you with bad eyes or bigger monitors, we can zoom the overlay by scrolling the mouse wheel over the list of names.





To access some more of the advanced options, right click near the little red dot again and select “edit”. The “Overlay Editor” window will pop up, which looks like this:



Near the bottom there are 5 check boxes to play with until you figure out what you like and dislike on your overlay. Personally, I uncheck the bounding box as it unnecessarily covers up a big chunk of the screen. You can also drag each element around and rearrange to fit your style. Go wild.

Lastly, I’ll show you how to change the font and the color of the text.

If you right click on an actual letter in “Talking” (see below), will see an option for “Font” and one for “Color”. You can choose the ones that you like best — I went with Comic Sans. Everyone loves that font, right?



A solution for problems with windowed fullscreen view:

For those of us that use Windowed fullscreen or that have problems with the overlay in game, Stint Calidris has written up a little program to handle the overlay.

To use this, all you have to do is extract it and run it. Then head back to the Overlay options in Mumble and click the Overlay exceptions tab. Add the program to the whitelist, restart mumble and you’re good to go!

It should look something like this:





Enjoy!