Anyone good with it?
Where do you start if you want to do… anything custom at all…
That “manual?” Some third party site?
Allot of users in the post a desktop thread use it (including me) I’d say the best way to learn how to make rainmeter configs it to download a fairly simple skin and pull it apart. Get something like a clock or system resource monitoring script (avoid anything that pulls data from the web at first)
This will get you acquainted with the basic formatting of the configs and how to basic commands. From there I wend thru the documentation pages and learned what all the available commands were (even if I didn’t fully understand them at the time) This will let you know what you can and cant do in rainmeter. After that start playing with the more advanced commands or just keep pulling apart larger and more complex configs.
Plus if you get stuck on anything specific I have helped a few users setup (or debug) a few configs.
or nightmare mode
try to google skins that are useable
Whats the fun in that? It;s may more satisfying knowing that you have a one of a kind system that you created. Plus you can make it exactly the way you want it, not the way some other person does.
Some of us want a simple and efficient desktop replacement and don’t have time to learn a whole new system just to set something up ourselves. It’s the reason so many people don’t use Linux.
Well thats not what Medevilae is asking for. If you want pre-built ones just look around DA, lots of them there.
Yeah.
Also, do you think I could have the configs you used for the below? It looks really cool and seems like something I’d enjoy messing around with.
I’m still building them as I just recently finished the hardware. I’ll post em up as I finish them. Also an FYI the visible part of thst template in the screen shot will most likely be 5 configs:
- Day/Time
- Weather
- Calendar Events
- Month/Date
Alright, thanks.
I am so downloading that for PSPdisp.
BAM
Thats the code For the week day,time,Date, and month. I commented on what most of the function do. If you want to run it save it as an ini file (blah.ini) in the directory:
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\BLAH
Requires two fonts (to make it look nice) have themsaved here.
once you do that restart rainmeter and right clock on the taskbar icon, go to configs blah/Blah.ini
If you have any questions about it post em or I’m usually logged into steam chat.
Awesome. Thanks man!
EDIT: How can I prevent show desktop from minimizing Rainmeter stuff?
For each config, check “Keep on screen.”
EDIT: Also, if you want it to stay on the desktop, go to each config’s “Position” setting and check “On Desktop.”
That worked.
Now…
When I try to set up my weather, I put in my location code, (USPA16691) but it doesn’t work? It’s not even working with the default values! Something’s up with the cfg I’m guessing.
EDIT: Also FireTime, I didn’t disregard what you said about being in the Steam chat, but my Steam account has been disabled until hell knows when…
Link me where you got it from. Some of them stop working after a while as the websites they pull data from update and the RegEx no longer works.
This is what I’ve customized it to so far. Got a different weather skin.
Every time it gets to 10, AM or PM, half the M gets cut off. Is there a way I can prevent that? I didn’t see anything in the skin file that would do something like that.
This thread reminds me that I need to get my rainmeter set up again. But it always seemed like too much hassle for me to set up the rrs feeds and stuff, I might try those this time around. Last time I was just using Fire’s round date and winamp clicker
You can get it to work as a monitor in W7? Even with the latest version I can’t, someone obviously hates me :meh:
Setting up RSS feeds is easy…
Everything I’ve done has been straightforward. (Which amounts to changing fonts and colors, and X/Y pos, but still… 
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i was gonna use it on my newly found p4 but I can’t because pspdisp fullscreen mode doesn’t capture the rainmeter “window”
am not going to leave CRT screen running 24/7 just to see time and date