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- 174 votes, 28 comments. 286k members in the Rainmeter community. Welcome to r/rainmeter, the hub for the desktop customization tool! It's macos big sur stock.
- MacOS Big Sur Control Center Suite (link download included) Credit to MacOS Big Sur for this skin. Credit to Mond skin for player and weather, and this Brightness Control. Control Center and Menu bar: Google Drive. Task bar: TaskbarX or use Nexus Dock for a MacOS dock. FrostedGlass for blur effect.
Rainmeter can help you customize your Windows desktop in the way you like. 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 bersifat opensource serta banyak komunitas disana. Banyak skin keren yang patut kita coba untuk menghilangkan kebosanan di layar awal desktop kita. Berikut skin favorit yang bisa agan coba. Installing Manually. Before Rainmeter 1.3, most skins had to be unzipped and moved to the Skins folder by hand. All versions of Rainmeter are 100% backwards-compatible, so these older skins will still work just fine.
You can download the latest version of Rainmeter on its official website.
Rainmeter Skin Dashboard
After launching the Rainmeter software, it will stay in the system tray, and we can click its icon to open the dashboard.
Let’s first take a look at the Rainmeter dashboard. It is made up of three parts.
Skin list: The leftmost column is a list of available desktop widgets, which is organized in a tree structure. There are thousands of skins available in the Rainmeter community. A skin can be just about anything. From weather forecasts to RSS feeds to system management and everything in-between.
Status bar (upper part on the right): We can choose to enable or disable, refresh and edit the component here. We can also view related information such as the author and version of the skin.
Skin Settings (lower part on the right): We can set the position and transparency of the component on the desktop here. It is worth noting that we can uncheck “Draggable” to fix the widget in a set position, so as to avoid being accidentally dragged.
Rainmeter Big Sur
Install New Widgets
We can get the packages of Rainmeter skins from some of these communities:
https://www.deviantart.com/rainmeter/gallery/23941137/skins
https://visualskins.com/
https://rainmeterhub.com/
The downloaded package may have two formats, the first kind end with “.rmskin”, and the other is the file directory format. 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”.
For the the kind in file directory format, we need to manually copy it to the local directory where the Rainmeter widget is located. Usually, the location of this directory is “Documents> Rainmeter> Skins”. After that, go back to the panel, click on “Refresh All”, and then it will be displayed in the list.
After installation, we can select the corresponding “.ini” file, and then click “Load” at the top right to load it on the desktop. When a widget is loaded on the desktop, use the mouse to drag it to a suitable position. 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.
Demos
Big Sur by fediaFedia
Flame Desktop by Urim Berisha
Official Documentation For Advanced Users
If you have development experience, you can write your own desktop skin. Rainmeter has an official document that can help you – https://docs.rainmeter.net/tips/.
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There are two ways of installing Rainmeter skins downloaded from the internet:
- Automatically : If the skin is in the .rmskin format.
In short : Double-click the .rmskin file, click Install. - Manually : If the file is a .zip/.rar/.7z archive.
In short : Unzip the archive to the Rainmeter Skins folder. Refresh Rainmeter.
Installing Automatically
Skins in the Rainmeter Skin Packager (.rmskin) format can be easily and automatically installed with the Rainmeter Skin Installer. During a normal Rainmeter installation, the .rmskin extension is associated in Windows with the Skin Installer program, and simply double-clicking the file will install it in Rainmeter.
This dialog lists each component that will be installed. These may include:
- Skins : At least one skin will always be included and installed in the RainmeterSkins folder. The author of the package may indicate that one or more skins will automatically be loaded when the installation is complete.
- Layouts : If the author has added a layout to the package it will be installed in the RainmeterLayouts folder. If Apply included layout is selected, the layout will be applied to Rainmeter following installation.
- Plugins : If the author has added custom plugins to the package the appropriate 32bit/64bit architecture version of the plugin .dll files will be installed to the RainmeterPlugins folder.
Legacy .rmskin format components. No longer supported in new Rainmeter 2.4 .rmskin files:
- Fonts : If an author has included font files with the package, they will be installed in the WindowsFonts folder. This may be disabled by unchecking Install fonts to system in the Advanced pull-down menu.
- Addons : If an author has included addon executable files with the package, they will be installed in the RainmeterAddons folder.
If any of the skins to be installed already exist, they will be moved to a Backup folder before installation. This may be disabled by unchecking Backup skins in the Advanced pull-down menu.
Click Install to complete the installation of the package.
Installing Manually
Before Rainmeter 1.3, most skins had to be unzipped and moved to the Skins folder by hand. All versions of Rainmeter are 100% backwards-compatible, so these older skins will still work just fine. Here is how to install them:
First of all, if a skin comes in an archive, such as a ZIP, RAR or 7Z file, software is needed to 'extract' them. 7-Zip is one of the popular choices, since it can handle almost any archive type. After installing the software, right-click the archive in Explorer to extract it.
The archive may include a readme.txt file with further instructions. If not, look for a folder with the same name as the skin - it might be inside another folder that is actually called 'Skins'. Move the folder to the Rainmeter 'Skins' folder:
C:UsersYourNameDocumentsRainmeterSkins1
1. 'YourName' is an example.
Rainmeter Big Surr
Finally, right-click the Rainmeter Windows Notification area icon and select Refresh all. The new skins will now be available to load from the Manage window or context menus.