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A "minimal" mode for the Turn Order window or a resizable Turn Order window for tablet players...

I've been running a couple of adventures on roll20 for our gaming group which meets in person. It's convenient for us for a number of different reasons, but one thing has cropped up repeatedly - the turn order window. When I (the GM) enable the turn order window, everyone sees it. However, if they're on tablets (which most are), or on an otherwise small screen, it can be a problem: the window size is tricky (the title bar is rather large), it cannot be moved partially or completely off the screen, and if they're on a tablet they cannot resize it. Obviously, if resizing were available to tablet users, this would help somewhat, but it seems to me an ideal solution would be for each user to have the ability to "minimize" the turn order window to show only the current character and/or to hide the turn order window and have each turn be announced in the chat window instead...
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Not sure on Tablets, but on computer you can Double click the top of the Turn Order window to minimize it, same as Character sheets. It becomes just a semi-transparent floating bar of the top line. Thus your players who minimized it would not see the next person on the turn order, which does not meet your request, but simply the GM or someone else can verbally announce for their benefit "You are up next!" Hope this helps. FWIW I agree the text-size on Turn Order window is a bit large. But I appreciate that it has scrolling ability if the window is sized down too far for the entire list to show at once.
Ah, this is good news! I did not realize that feature existed, that'll help a lot next session...
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They probably just introduced that feature when they introduced Character Sheets (just within the last month or 2). You can do the same minimize method also with Character Sheets and Handouts / Journals.
As an update, we attempted the double-click option via tablets this weekend and it didn't work. So some work still needs to be accomplished, although it may just be a matter of supporting the standard tablet input methods...