Rainmeter has an official document that can help you –. If you have development experience, you can write your own desktop skin. Official Documentation For Advanced Users Here is a little trick, we can use the left button of the mouse to select and hold a widget on the screen, and then use the arrow keys to move the widget more precisely. When a widget is loaded on the desktop, use the mouse to drag it to a suitable position. After that, go back to the panel, click on “Refresh All”, and then it will be displayed in the list.Īfter installation, we can select the corresponding “.ini” file, and then click “Load” at the top right to load it on the desktop. Usually, the location of this directory is “Documents> Rainmeter> Skins”. For the file ending with “.rmskin”, you can directly double-click to run it, and then the widget will be automatically added to the “Component List”.įor the the kind in file directory format, we need to manually copy it to the local directory where the Rainmeter widget is located. The downloaded package may have two formats, the first kind end with “.rmskin”, and the other is the file directory format. We can get the packages of Rainmeter skins from some of these communities:

It is worth noting that we can uncheck “Draggable” to fix the widget in a set position, so as to avoid being accidentally dragged. Skin Settings (lower part on the right): We can set the position and transparency of the component on the desktop here. We can also view related information such as the author and version of the skin. Status bar (upper part on the right): We can choose to enable or disable, refresh and edit the component here. From weather forecasts to RSS feeds to system management and everything in-between. There are thousands of skins available in the Rainmeter community. Skin list: The leftmost column is a list of available desktop widgets, which is organized in a tree structure. Let’s first take a look at the Rainmeter dashboard. You can download the latest version of Rainmeter on its official website.Īfter launching the Rainmeter software, it will stay in the system tray, and we can click its icon to open the dashboard. It is an open source software with an active community, where you can discover tons of skins created and shared by its users, to achieve the effects you want. Rainmeter can help you customize your Windows desktop in the way you like. 4 Official Documentation For Advanced Users.

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