Rainmeter Skins For Mac

What You Need

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An enhanced text editor with code highlighting makes a big difference.

Here's what you need to create Rainmeter skins:

• Mar 27, 2020 Before we start telling you the best Rainmeter skins, you have to first download and install Rainmeter on your Windows just like any ordinary software. Once you open the Rainmeter from the desktop icon, you can customize the desktop with the skin you installed. List of free Rainmeter skins for Windows 10, 8 and 7: 1. Ironman – Jarvis V2.
• Senja Suite is a minimal looking Rainmete skin with all necessary widgets and features.
• Named SkinName.ini—where 'SkinName' is the name of the skin—this is a text file that contains the fundamental code that Rainmeter uses to create a working skin. Because a skin may have any number of variants, skins are typically identified not by their file name, but by the folder where they are located.
• This is a Start Menu replacement for Rainmeter. It has metro/win8 and classic/win7 style options and comes in two sizes, small and standard. It also features an update checker to inform you of the latest Rainmeter (configurable to check for betas or finals) or Start Menu skin updates. For more info see the forum page.

1. Rainmeter.
2. A text editor.

And that's all. No extra software or materials of any kind are required.

Text Editor

That being said: while you can edit skins using Windows' built-in text editor, Notepad, we strongly recommend downloading an enhanced text editor, such as Notepad++, Sublime Text or Atom. These applications come with powerful features like tabs, auto-completion, embedded file browsers and more. You can even download extensions that add Rainmeter-specific code highlighting, which makes it much faster and easier to read a skin's code and spot errors.

For more information, see Notepad Alternatives.

Image Editor

Depending on the kind of skin you want to make, you may also want to find a good piece of image editing software. Rainmeter can create text by itself, as well as simple or complex vector shapes, like rectangles and circles. But you will find you often want a separately-created image file.

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Adobe Photoshop is the usual gold standard for image editing, but there are other, less expensive alternatives worth considering, such as Paint.NET, GIMP, or Inkscape.

Configs

A skin can grow to become an enormously complex project by the time it's done. It may accumulate any number of images, icons, fonts, plugins, addons, scripts, and even included code that is strewn across multiple files and shared by other skins.

But at the core of every skin is a single .ini file. Named SkinName.ini—where 'SkinName' is the name of the skin—this is a text file that contains the fundamental code that Rainmeter uses to create a working skin.

Because a skin may have any number of variants, skins are typically identified not by their file name, but by the folder where they are located. This is known as the skin's config name. To quickly find out a skin's config name, just check the context menu—the first item is the config name. For example, the illustro 'Clock' skin's config name is illustroClock.

Each skin also has a root config folder. This refers to the one folder that contains all of the skins belonging to a 'suite,' such as illustro. When the skins in a suite are organized together in this way, they can be exported to a package, and then installed on another system, as a single collection. They can also share fonts, images and other resources in a way that separate skins cannot. For a simple skin that is not part of such a 'suite,' the config and root config are the same.

Here's a quick reference chart to help you remember the relationship between skins, configs, variants and roots, using illustro as an example:

Root config folders are all organized in Rainmeter's main Skins folder:

C:UsersYourNameDocumentsRainmeterSkins

Accordingly, you can identify any skin by its file path, according to a simple rule:

C:UsersYourNameDocumentsRainmeterSkinsConfigNameSkinName.ini

The illustro 'Clock' skin in the Skins folder. Remember that skins are identified by their config name, e.g. 'illustroClock'.

Your First Skin

Until now, you have been working with the pre-made illustro skins that come with Rainmeter. Now, you're going to create a new skin from scratch.

Creating a new skin is quite easy. In Manage, click the 'Create new skin' button. This will create a new config folder in the skins list, offering a default starting name of 'NewSkin'. Name this folder 'MyFirstSkin' and hit enter.

This will do several things. It will create a new root config folder with the name 'MyFirstSkin'. In it it will create an empty @Resources folder, will create a new basic MyFirstSkin.ini skin file, and will open this new skin in your default or defined text editor, so you are off and running.

Your new skin is created in the proper folder, and ready to work with in Manage and your text editor.

The 'Hello, World!' Skin

The very first thing you will see in your skin is the [Rainmeter] section. This is a skin's 'header' property, like the <head> tag in an HTML webpage. In the [Rainmeter] section, you will see an Update=1000 option. Like this:

The Update option is what sets the length of the skin's update cycle. The length is given in milliseconds, or 1/1000ths of a second, so Update=1000 means that the skin will update once per second. Updating is how the skin will react to changes in information. You'll see how this works in more detail later on.

Now that you've given your skin a 'head,' it's time to give it a 'body.' Let's change that default string meter. This is one of the most common types of meters, and it is used to create text.

The Meter option is required to tell Rainmeter that this section is, in fact, a meter. All meters have this option. The value of the option determines what type of meter it is.

The Text option, on the other hand, is unique to the string meter. As you might have guessed, this is where you provide a string of text for Rainmeter to display.

Believe it or not, what you have now is a complete, valid, working Rainmeter skin! Let's load it to see what it looks like. Load the skin using one of the methods that you learned before. You can either:

• Open the Manage window by left-clicking the Rainmeter tray icon, find MyFirstSkin in the skins list, then click the Load button in the upper-right.

• Open the context menu by right-clicking the tray icon, then select Skins → MyFirstSkin → MyFirstSkin.ini.

(As you get comfortable with Rainmeter's user interface, you'll decide whether you prefer working with the context menu or the Manage window.)

Now, look up in the top-left corner of your desktop. There's your skin!

It's... not very big. Or pretty. Meters without any options tend to be very simple and unimpressive. So let's add some formatting.

Here's what we've added:

• AntiAlias
  A general meter option that smooths out the edges of a meter. This almost always improves the appearance of a string meter.

• FontColor
  A color option that changes the color of the text in this meter.

• FontFace
  An option that changes the font used for this meter. Rainmeter can use any font that you have installed in Windows, or another font in a skin's @Resources folder—but we'll get to that.

• FontSize
  The size of the font.

Now, let's apply these changes by refreshing the skin. Once again, you can either press Refresh in the Manage window, or MyFirstSkin → Refresh skin in the context menu.

Congratulations! You have just created a new skin. You are now ready to move on to the Basic Tutorials. This series will guide you through the entire process of creating several example skins, while teaching you about the fundamental elements of a Rainmeter skin.

Rainmeter is the best known and most popular desktop customization program for Windows. Enhance your Windows computer at home or work with skins; handy, compact applets that float freely on your desktop. Rainmeter skins provide you with useful information at a glance. It’s easy to keep an eye on your system resources, like memory and battery power, or your online data streams, including email, RSS feeds, and weather forecasts.

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Many skins are even functional: they can record your notes and to-do lists, launch your favorite applications, control your media player – all in a clean, unobtrusive interface that you can rearrange and customize to your liking.

There are thousands and thousands of skins available, crafted by a large and ever-growing community of Rainmeter users.

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Rainmeter is not just an application, it is a robust toolkit. Create and modify your own skins in a simple language that’s easy to learn, with the help of our extensive documentation, getting started guide and skin tutorials. Skins call upon measures, a set of powerful built-in modules that do all the heavy lifting, and create interactive meters to display that information however you decide. In this way, Rainmeter brings productive innovation together with creative artistry like no other platform of its kind.

Rainmeter is a community. People in our forums are always happy to help you get started or answer questions. Over the last few years, a thriving community has built up around Rainmeter, as average users freely contribute their own original skins, their generous knowledge and support, and their inspirational ideas to a project whose scope and capabilities are constantly expanding.

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Rainmeter is designed for YOUR system. Rainmeter uses very little CPU and RAM resources, has a tiny space footprint, and will run perfectly well on any hardware using Windows XP through Windows 8.

Rainmeter is free and open source. Rainmeter is open source software distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 license. If you want to get involved, check the Rainmeter GitHub repository.

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