In Rainmeter, how do I make a skin that selects to play a random.wav file to play when the icon is clicked? How do I convert Rainmeter files into GIFs? Alternatively, you can delete from the skin folder so as to remove it completely from Rainmeter menu setting, refer to the picture above or you can see here for the example folder path:C: Users Documents Rainmeter Skins. Uninstall Rainmeter How to uninstall rainmeter.
Basics
Install rainmeter
Once it's installed, it should automatically load some skins (the stuff on your desktop)
Right click any of the skins>Rainmeter>Manage and you'll open Rainmeter's 'main menu'
Here you'll see that rainmeter has automatically loaded 'illustro' onto your desktop
You can locate your skins directory by right clicking the illustro folder>Open folder<Skins or by opening This PC>Documents>Rainmeter>Skins
When a skin is installed in rainmeter, you can click the load/unload button to get it on/off your desktop
Installing Skins
There are many places to discover new skins, so here are a few to get you started Deviant Art, /r/rainmeter, Rainmeterhub
Downloaded skins get saved as .mskin files, like this. Simply run the file and it will automatically get added to your rainmeter menu
Open the folder in your menu and select the skin you'd like to load, then load it!
Editing Skins
Each skin is different, but when personalizing your desktop, you'll want to play around with the skins by clicking 'edit'. They are usually pretty intuitive and look like this
Most skins' colors are in the RGB format, so you'll see something like Color: 255, 145, 0, 200; the last number is the transparency value.
You can change the position of a skin by dragging it around your screen, or by altering the x and y coordinates the notepad file.
Fonts are a little more tricky, so here is an in-depth guide on how to do that
Sometimes skins will require you to enter information in order for them to do their jobs. For instance, the mini-steam launcher requires you to input your steam username here so that it can look at your game directory (your profile must be set to public in order to do this)
You may have noticed some instructions after the '//' in the editing file, most skin creators are kind enough to guide their users through the process :)
Have fun with it! Experiment, play around. Let me know if you have any questions.
If there's something you're struggling with, or something you want me to add, please let me know!
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Rainmeter Skins uses for the desktop customization where it allows you to customize your windows desktop to display different information with the help of lots of widget or applets. Rainmeter comes under the GNU GPL v2 license and it is open source so you can download and use it for free to make your windows desktop look stunning.
From the official sources, you can download and installed the packages of ready to use skins. These packages of skins are called suites.
Main functionalities of Rainmeter Skins
- Desktop Clocks
- System Monitor
- Whether Informations widgets
- App launcher
- RSS Reader
- Audio Player and much more
Rainmeter was released on the Feb 2001, by the Kimmo ‘Rainy’ Pekkola
How it All Works
- Download Rainmeter application
- Download skins
- Install and run skins to windows desktop with the Rainmeter platform
How To Download Rainmeter Application
Rainmeter is a free open source program so you can download the application for free from the official website.
- Go to the rainmeter.net
- Click on the download link
- Wait till it finishes the installation
Once to download is finished, tap on the download file to start the installation process.
Now you just need to follow the installation process as it recommend to follow.
You are done
How To Install Rainmeter Skins To Windows
Rainmeter Skins are developed for the Windows operating system so if you are having windows 7 or later versions like Windows 8, 8.5, 10 so you can install Rainmeter Skins for your desktop customization.
Here we are going to share that how you can install any Rainmeter Skins to windows.
You can install your downloaded Rainmeter skin in two ways,
- Automatic installation, if your Rainmeter Skin is the .rmskin format
- If your Rainmeter Skin is in archive format then you have to go for the manual installation
Automatic installation
if your Downloaded Skin is in .rmskin format then it can be easily installed in few clicks with the help of a Rainmeter Skin Installer. Just double-click on the skin .rmskin file to finish installations.
Manual Installation
As we tell in starting that Manual Installation is to install the skin with the archive file, like ZIP, RAR etc. First, you have to extract the file and for doing this you windows device much have any archive file extractor like 7zip.
If you are having any archive file extractor then ok, otherwise you have to download anyone as per your choice.
How to extract the file
- Just right click on the file
- Tap on the extract
- Chose the folder where you want to extract the file
- You are done
In the extracted file you will find one file called “readme” here you can read all of the further instructions
Or you can directly move the skin file to the Rainmeter application
Or watch this videos for more guidance
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