I wish I could make an awesome rainmeter, but I have no idea. Anyone want to help me? I can upload pictures of what I think would be a badass skin.
If it's not too complex I can take a shot at it. I have kinda taught myself the basics by taking apart skins others have made. Might take some time, but I like playing around in Rainmeter. Might not be perfect, I literally JUST realized the white version of my skin had half the labels miscoded. Been using black for so long (which was perfect, just made white as a backup alternative), didn't even notice for the last 3 days since I've switched.
Looking at the one I made/use might be a bit misleading. I intentionally made it very simplistic in style. Functionality is very nice though. Most of the icons link to various settings screens, or directories. A lot of the skins have mouse rollover readouts with more information, or tool-tips. i just wanted something simple and clean that didn't eat up my desktop and had as much information as I could cram in the 180 pixels on either side of my screen.
Post up some reference pictures, and what you would like the skins to monitor/display and i can at least work up a sample, just for fun.
Thanks
and this is on my lapotp, only difference is my desktop has another section in the rocketdock for games, which includes simcity 4, orgin, steam, blacklight retribution, LoL, ace, and a few others ;3
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Wow that is a neat backround. I wish I could find some really high res, crisp picture of a national park lul. Where do you guys find these pictures?
Edit: Earth, you might want to black out your ip address.
Edit2: Does Rainmeter play well with XP? And I almost forgot when I get my laptop up and running I can make one for Win7
Been playing around with Rainmeter for quite some time now. Still plenty more things to add but I got the clock, the hovering text over the buttons and the "experience" bars working.
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Only, ONLY if I could do this. Then my life would be a little better.
Yo I came looking for a solution to a graphics problems I had but found this thread instead. With that out of the way I have a question to ask. Codiferus17 Do you have a copy of that desktop. I have been looking for something resembling my linux desktop for a while. It was only stock but I liked it. There has been nothing like it for windows that I could find until I found yours .
I would much appreciate it.
There's no real way to 'copy' the desktop theme I use. There's a breakdown of the programs I use in the OP. The rainmeter skin i made is up for download with a link on page 3 (I think) of this thread. The custom theme I use (the part that changes the shell windows and start menu) is a modified version of "Black Satin" from TheBull available on CreativX.net. The dock at the top of my screen is RocketDock w/ a stack add-on, using Lucid V2 Icons (with several I had to make myself). I use ObjectDock to replace the taskbar/startbutton with 3 separate docks, one for the Start Icon, one for active windows(auto-hides), and one for the tray(auto-hides) with a simple skin I made for myself (just a simple semi-transparent pane with a dark outline).
Aside from those I use FullGlass (pretty sure BlackSatin comes with a copy), and a program called Theme Resource Changer v1.0 to tweak anything I might like to, and Universal Theme Patcher to enable shell image switching. I have another program that allows me to change the Log-On background as well, but I forget what it's called.
The combination of all that, and time spent playing and tweaking is what makes my desktop, not one general 'Theme'. Would make it immensely difficult to copy.
Personally I think "aftermarket" personalization programs- windowblinds, CursorX, Rainmeter,RocketDock, ObjectBar, ObjectDock, etc. are pointless. Every single time I use one (I also made the mistake of buying Windowblinds some number of years ago, waste of money) I encounter some show stopper that makes me revert. Fences was doing well for a bit there, but dragging them around was delayed for some reason. A lot of the others I've tried just crash outright or don't work in specific situations or don't work properly with some of my programs I use.
The extent of my customization beyond what windows provides is pretty much adding the quick-launch bar back to win7. If I had to choose a feature to remove from Win7, it would be the pinning functionality. I only pin stuff by accident and I find it messy and annoying, I prefer the quick launch bar approach.
It sort of hits boot time. When you log in, you have to wait a second or two longer for rainmeter to start.
Agreed. However you can still go about your business while Rainmeter is loading. Even with MSIAfterburner, FanSpeed, Rainmeter, and FullGlass starting (along with Skype, AVG and a few others) when I log in on a ~5 year old machine it's not too bad.
Personally I think "aftermarket" personalization programs- windowblinds, CursorX, Rainmeter,RocketDock, ObjectBar, ObjectDock, etc. are pointless. Every single time I use one (I also made the mistake of buying Windowblinds some number of years ago, waste of money) I encounter some show stopper that makes me revert. Fences was doing well for a bit there, but dragging them around was delayed for some reason. A lot of the others I've tried just crash outright or don't work in specific situations or don't work properly with some of my programs I use.
The extent of my customization beyond what windows provides is pretty much adding the quick-launch bar back to win7. If I had to choose a feature to remove from Win7, it would be the pinning functionality. I only pin stuff by accident and I find it messy and annoying, I prefer the quick launch bar approach.
The only program that has given me 'trouble' is Rainmeter, and that's only when I had skins set up improperly. Basically, user error, no fault of the program. RocketDock and ObjectDock and such function perfectly and only even hit system performance noticeably when you have some crazy animations going with the docks.
Been playing around with Rainmeter for quite some time now. Still plenty more things to add but I got the clock, the hovering text over the buttons and the "experience" bars working.
Not sure how I missed this. That's nice work. I have a very similar theme on my Ipod Touch. The Exp bars are a nice touch. Have you though of making one of the bars Hunger (RAM?) and one Health (CPU?) perhaps?
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If it's not too complex I can take a shot at it. I have kinda taught myself the basics by taking apart skins others have made. Might take some time, but I like playing around in Rainmeter. Might not be perfect, I literally JUST realized the white version of my skin had half the labels miscoded. Been using black for so long (which was perfect, just made white as a backup alternative), didn't even notice for the last 3 days since I've switched.
Looking at the one I made/use might be a bit misleading. I intentionally made it very simplistic in style. Functionality is very nice though. Most of the icons link to various settings screens, or directories. A lot of the skins have mouse rollover readouts with more information, or tool-tips. i just wanted something simple and clean that didn't eat up my desktop and had as much information as I could cram in the 180 pixels on either side of my screen.
Post up some reference pictures, and what you would like the skins to monitor/display and i can at least work up a sample, just for fun.
Wow that is a neat backround. I wish I could find some really high res, crisp picture of a national park lul. Where do you guys find these pictures?
Edit: Earth, you might want to black out your ip address.
Edit2: Does Rainmeter play well with XP? And I almost forgot when I get my laptop up and running I can make one for Win7
Now that is what I am looking for! I'll be sure to bookmark it so I can change it later. I'm just too lazy to at the moment lol.
I did get this... It was a b*tch to get rid of the recycle bin.
Only, ONLY if I could do this. Then my life would be a little better.
Can't figure out how to make the start menu different though. It's all ugly windows colours.
Is that just rainmeter? Or did you add some others with it?
If you mean the icon, just right click and edit icon settings. If you mean the actual start menu, then you need a custom theme.
I need to change the icon and taskbar... Could someone help :3
First picture shows with my task bar. I keep this hidden most of the time.
I am still working on it. Just started customizing this a few days ago
There's no real way to 'copy' the desktop theme I use. There's a breakdown of the programs I use in the OP. The rainmeter skin i made is up for download with a link on page 3 (I think) of this thread. The custom theme I use (the part that changes the shell windows and start menu) is a modified version of "Black Satin" from TheBull available on CreativX.net. The dock at the top of my screen is RocketDock w/ a stack add-on, using Lucid V2 Icons (with several I had to make myself). I use ObjectDock to replace the taskbar/startbutton with 3 separate docks, one for the Start Icon, one for active windows(auto-hides), and one for the tray(auto-hides) with a simple skin I made for myself (just a simple semi-transparent pane with a dark outline).
Aside from those I use FullGlass (pretty sure BlackSatin comes with a copy), and a program called Theme Resource Changer v1.0 to tweak anything I might like to, and Universal Theme Patcher to enable shell image switching. I have another program that allows me to change the Log-On background as well, but I forget what it's called.
The combination of all that, and time spent playing and tweaking is what makes my desktop, not one general 'Theme'. Would make it immensely difficult to copy.
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Curse PremiumThe extent of my customization beyond what windows provides is pretty much adding the quick-launch bar back to win7. If I had to choose a feature to remove from Win7, it would be the pinning functionality. I only pin stuff by accident and I find it messy and annoying, I prefer the quick launch bar approach.
Agreed. However you can still go about your business while Rainmeter is loading. Even with MSIAfterburner, FanSpeed, Rainmeter, and FullGlass starting (along with Skype, AVG and a few others) when I log in on a ~5 year old machine it's not too bad.
The only program that has given me 'trouble' is Rainmeter, and that's only when I had skins set up improperly. Basically, user error, no fault of the program. RocketDock and ObjectDock and such function perfectly and only even hit system performance noticeably when you have some crazy animations going with the docks.
Not sure how I missed this. That's nice work. I have a very similar theme on my Ipod Touch. The Exp bars are a nice touch. Have you though of making one of the bars Hunger (RAM?) and one Health (CPU?) perhaps?
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Minecraft Desktop(modified rainmeter HUD and corner clock, used von doomcraft icons for the HUD :D)