The Onidia character lives inside the Onidia window, on your desktop. She is a tiny chibi companion, not a cursor: her body is hers, and you guide her with a small set of everyday moves. Everything below is done with the mouse and a keyboard key — nothing to install, nothing to configure.
Open the Onidia entry under Games from the start menu (the Onidia Chat window is her talking interface — see the user guide for that). She appears where you last left her, and she is ready to be told what to do.
Her window is hidden behind a super-sized desktop, so the first thing to learn is the double-click: it hides the window whenever you want to see the rest of your screen, and double-clicking it again brings it straight back. If you want it to jump to a different place, keep reading on.
A floating button lives on your taskbar/dock: when she is hidden, it says Haiya! and one click restores her window and focus; when she is already on screen, that same click hides her again. This is the single switch for present / absent.
There is no number to type: size is set entirely by dragging.
All of it is done from the border handles described above. Shift and Alt are independent multipliers: Shift picks a coarse preset size, Alt picks a finer one. They do not need to be held at the same time — either one alone makes the drag snap to a comfortable grid step instead of sliding pixel by pixel.
Nothing is reset between sessions: if you resize her, then close and reopen the character later, she starts at exactly the size she ended up. This applies to position too — the next section covers that.
Two ways to put her off screen, both one action.
A double-click in the window body toggles her visibility. This is the fastest way to clear a distracted desktop — she simply walks away for a second, and a double-click brings her back to exactly where she was.
The taskbar/dock button is the second switch. It tracks her state: one click when she is hidden wakes her window and brings it to the front; one click when she is visible hides her again. Because the button stays visible, it doubles as a live status indicator.
Hiding is a window state only. Anything you have typed into her chat window, any look on her face, every preference you have set — all of it is kept in the settings, and nothing is lost when she disappears.
She answers the way you talk to her — text, voice, or a mix of both, all sent through her chat window (Onidia Chat) before it is spoken to the buddy on screen.
Her mouth moves with the speech, and she will react with the current look when she hears you. If she does not seem to hear you, the usual suspects are already covered in the user guide: she is still awake, her mic is not on, or she is waiting inside her work-time window.
A few notes on keeping her out of the way of your everyday work instead of fighting it.
Move her first, then decide. Always on top keeps her above everything else while the flag is set; turn it off and she sits at the bottom of the stack like any other window, and dragging her again works as usual.
Some applications grab the whole screen or start full-screen games; while one of those is active, dragging her around can be unpredictable. Pause, then drag again — nothing is broken, they just get first claim on the pointer.
Something got tangled (a window manager quirk, a screen saver drawing over her, a screen resolution change). Try Minimize then Restore from the window menu, or double-click the window to refresh the z-order. If it still will not move after that, she is fine — the pointer is just being held by something else.