Thread: Rainmeter Desktops(and all that jazz)

Originally Posted by DancingCorpse

In fact, if a mod wants they can split my post with Rainmeter and the few comments and I will use that to post up some configs and links and a crash course guide to Rainmeter.

Close enough

So, I'm bored, and I'm gunna turn my desktop into a Zelda theme. Just cause it's gunna look badass .

I'm gunna go with the "Ocarina of Time" look.

http://www.planet-nintendo.de/img/ar...of-Time-15.jpg

Hearts or MP could be the CPU\RAM usage.
C-Buttons could be most used programs
And B and A just w\e

Add that to my WMP Shield, and my MM clock, and my desktop will be the Zelda desktop of the Gods!!!

Haha! Good plan, be sure to post it up on the LifeHacker flikr group and they might make it a featured desktop on their site.

I'm thinking of making an EvE themed skin.

Why don't you rename this Rainmeter Desktops, be where everyone with Rainmeter can post their configs and desktops and all that jazz!

Tehehe

Oh man! Get me some pics when you get that stuff set up... It sounds awesome!

Ok, copy pasting my post from in Post your Desktop:

Made this desktop with Rainmeter, those Icons you see in the bar at the bottom open exactly what they say they open (they are not normal desktop icons). The bar just below that is monitoring my systems and network activity. RSS feeds on the left and one on the right, will be adding more of those soon. Notepad also on the right, and just above it the weather forecast for 4 days.

The big circle thing (called "Arcs", legend below) in the middle top right monitors time, CPU, HDD space, Network, RAM, Month, and Day. All of which I just listed is represented by a bar in that circle. To the left of that is a clock+day&date. At the bottom above the lower menu bar is another weather forecaster, just bigger and easier to see at a glance.

Working to get a drop down menu thing to get rid of all my game Icons soon.

[img width=700 height=560]http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd14/DeltaCorpse/EnigmaDesktop.jpg[/img]

Legend to Arcs:

[img width=700 height=437]http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd14/DeltaCorpse/Legend.jpg[/img]

The windows theme is also custom.

Copy paste of my links:

On XP, I used a custom Windows Theme, a tool called Rainmeter which is a system monitoring tool that can be manipulated in almost anyway, and a couple of skins that have been made for Rainmeter. I am actually learning code just because of this it is so awesome.

Here are a few links on LifeHacker that they have featured on their homepage:
http://lifehacker.com/5302941/the-mi...indows-desktop
http://lifehacker.com/5084412/config...er-10+foot-hud (I use this one on there as you can see)
http://lifehacker.com/5158878/enigma...-and-templates (this is most of the skins you see there)
http://lifehacker.com/5087956/custom...enigma-desktop (great guide on how to use Rainmeter)
http://lassekongo83.deviantart.com/a...ss-VS-98916844 (theme I am using)
http://lifehacker.com/5056544/how-to...-visual-styles (needed to install custom themes)
http://lifehacker.com/5057453/window...-in-monochrome

And this last link is the one that got me into this, just frakking awesoem:
http://lifehacker.com/5297193/the-halo-3-hud-desktop


All of those I just linked are made with Rainmeter, all are awesome.
I will post up some of the code later when I am back at my home after this weekend, probably post up my config file too if you want it.

ok, maybe I'm just doing something wrong, but I can't get my stuff to stay on my desktop when I hit my "Show desktop" button. When I set it to "On Desktop" it goes away.

It is minimizing rainmeter I believe, remember, Rainmeter is an overlay, it is not actually embedded on the desktop.