How to Customize your Desktop with Rainmeter 

Want to do this in Linux? Try Conky Video on that here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QB8cjKpdVQY.html

This was a blast from the past! I used to use this back in the Vista era. It can be a resource hog if you go with the super graphic skins but a minimalist skin is pretty light on resources.

Ah, Rainmeter. I remember I had a fully-customized Mass Effect Rainmeter skin I used on Windows 7 for years. I even tried my hand at writing my own skins once, but I lacked the artistic talent necessary to make them look great. Great to see Rainmeter is still soldiering on!

I remember using Rainmeter around 2003-2005. I liked how I could see my CPU, RAM, hard disk usage and other stuff on the desktop. I also used some replacement for the default Windows Shell, probably LiteStep. Great video Chris!

Don’t care what platform you use, we need more of this stuff.

I haven't seen rainmeter in a really long time. To be honest I forgot it was a thing. Glad there's still options like it around.

Gosh, this was a trip down memory lane. I kinda wish some of the KDE plasmoids were as good-looking as this. I forgot i was looking for a good audio visualizer on KDE.

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Rainmeter Hud Vision theme is really cool. Been using Rainmeter for years. Thanks Chris for video!

Haven't seen anyone cover rainmeter in a while. I use it to display system stats, drive usage and the time/date on my media system. I combine items from about for skins, some I am looking to change out.

Now we need a tutorial for steam skins! Let's rice everything!

I remember using a layers skin that would let you put different skins/elements even images with transparency on different layers. I'd use it with a second version of my wallpaper to hide the visualizer for the music behind parts of the wallpaper. For example it can go partially behind a mountain in your wallpaper if you like.

Been using this for years definitely a great tool

I wish life had an "Edit" button

I actually made my windows 10 pc look like windows 8 thanks to rain meter Rainmeter is AWESOME

Hi, Chris. I was interested in your Lin+Win desktop implementation. Tell me what to read to repeat this experience for yourself. Which video cards are better to use - I suspect AMD?

I like NIRCMD for muting/setting the volume to a fixed level and I combine it using Autohotkey across a group of machines. There still doesn't seem to be a built-in way

Legit was just watching your new desktop environment video 😂 nice timing.

I used to use a program called AstonShell and I had it dialled in with drop down menus and an interactive wallpaper that I thought was really cool then after a couple of PC's I went to get it back and it's gone! I found Rainmeter as an alternative and I still haven't learned how to use it yet, which is what brought me here. I'm kind of aware of what it can do I just haven't worked out how to do it all yet or sat down and tried to figure it out! I'm still rocking the basic system, clock and disk space skins. I did manage to update the disks for all my disks but I yearn for something a bit better looking. Anyway thanks for the video, it kind of inspires me to set something up.

I started using JaxCore a while ago and I like it

i have this thing called VisBubble that's a graphical analyzer for sound, can be bars, or round, Audio Changer that's an icon that allows you to switch audio output sources with a click, and the volume with the scroll wheel, and Transparent Taskbar, that makes the taskbar completely transparent, or blurry-transparent... the other ones i got are pretty generic...

Beautiful background picture of Cape Raoul, Tasmania entering the Derwent Diver.

Hugely helpful!! I just discovered Rainmeter today and this is an excellent starter guide. Thank you

Hey I used to use Rainmeter before! Also like your choice of skins~

ohh my posh, rainmeter and vscode, you truly are a man of culture

You should take a look at droptop four to reach a similar experience of your Linux environment

Can you configure RainMeter to hide groups of icons/folder shortcuts like Fences?

Very cool and step by step explanation! Thnx for tutorial and sources with skins)

I know you’re not a big fan of macOS, but do you know of something relatively similar for macOS? I know you can do very minor changes to the dock etc. via the defaults command in terminal… but was thinking of more modifications/customisation. To be honest, I actually like most of the look/feel of macOS but there are some small things I would like to customize/remove. Thank you.

Rainmeter old and gold

Love rainmeter. The reddit rainmeter community is awesome for new ideas.

I've been using Rainmeter for years, it's amazing.

@Chris When you are doing your gpu pass through to Windows. Are you able to have dual screen when in Windows?

I would remove the taskbar (I use flow launcher to launch apps), but I want to keep the system tray and clock etc. I still want to remove the other stuff though, Any way to accomplish anything like this?

I haven't used rainmeter since Vista maybe? It's cool that it's still around

Linux elitists rushing to the comments saying how much better it is on linux:

this reminds me to LiteStep , was a program where you can replace the entire explorer.exe with that soft and make windows like Linux if you want.

Rainmeter is getting a bit dated now, but I still use it to out a Google search box on my desktop. One major limitation that annoys me is the inability to drag files to folders in Rainmeter docks. Plain old Windows desktop folders are more useful!

How do I uninstall Get Started in Windows 11

question: does this has any kind of cool customizable bar tho like polybar?

"Prayer is about relationship" - amen!

Is there any way to enable aero effects on window titles and borders in windows 10/11? i know there was a tool called aeroglass but it only works in older versions

You look higher and higher with every video!!!! :P

To change settings after turning on click through you can ctrl click

I've had Rainmeter running on my Windows for like 5 years and I truly enjoy it's rich features and good looks! Hey so I know I'm off topic but can you do a video or give some advice for a good video editor in Linux Mint 21? I know about kdenLive but I also have windows lappy 💻 that I can run DaVinci but and truly unfamiliar with both and I keep hearing DaVinci Resolve is so much better BUT it also runs my laptop's fans at full blast while trying to edit (still pretty unfamiliar using it)....any help would be appreciated. 😔

What is the name is skin that shows top process/ram usage?

idk if its just me but windows 11 actually feels to have a bit of jitter overall with its desktop animations ngl tbh only something like hyprland has super smooth animations

This is perfect. I looked at Rainmeter a while back, and it sent me into EGO (eyes glazed over).

If ever the startmenu isn't fixed yet when we are forced to go to windows 11, I will then consider using rain meter to do what I use the windows 10 startmenu to do.i usedit before in the past to try it out.i think I will stick to the honey comb grid skin to launch my different applications and emulators. Hope Linux gaming gets to where I would be comfortable using it as my main system.since I use my PC just for gaming....

JaxCore is a fantastic suite of skins for Rainmeter. It's got custom audio mixers, audio flyouts, screensavers & start menu (tho it's a bit buggy in my experience) with more stuff I've probably never even touched haha

I have dabbled in Rainmeter a bit. But my widget engine of choice is XWidget, mainly because the widgets I develop have code to enhance their function and XWidget uses JavaScript for that; Rainmeter can use Lua, but I don't know that, so I stick to the language I know. When I was dabbling with Rainmeter, I chatted to some of the other developers, and they hated Rainmeter components being called widgets, "They're not Widgets, they are Skins!" 😁Ooops…

How does someone have several clocks? I have teams working in Portugal, Denmark, India, Shanghai and the Philippines. Does rainmeter only support the desktop display of the local time?

Titus, you rock, i have been using sonder skin for a while now. i tweak it to my liking. some skins can be memory hogs. try it and uninstall if you don't like any.

Everytime i want to hit the edit button on my clock nothing happens and i dont know why do you know how to fix this problem?

How hard is it in memory consumption?

Linux KDE Plasma: its cool! but its 3rd-party, and the process takes a few seconds to load.. Try out Plasmoids!

Have done this on Linux with Conky in Arco Linux.

it doesnt let me open the rm skin file, like when i try to open the skin it says choose an app to open this skin file

Why any of my rainmeter skin weather is not working ?

I been curious about things like this for years but, how many resources do they eat ? Makeing your windows as lite as possible and then installing things like this doesnt really sound cool, i may be wrong ...

What adds the extra context menu items?

thx for ur help dude

how is dwm under your GPU processes??

how do i not make the widget or skins go thru my screens like when im on google its there it doesnt stay on the home screen

Okay but have you covered Conky yet?

Chris what version of win11 are you currently using?

i7-8650U CPU + 32GB RAM .. Linux with Win11 VM or Win11 with Linux VM? thanks for any advice

i used rainmeter since 2013 to 2017

i use rainmeter all the time, its so cool

oh God that terminal looks awesome! anyone knows how to make it like that? colors scheme?fonts?

Wonder what api earthnullschool uses

can u make video of customized nilesoft shell that u showed in this video please..........................

is there a way i can get a clock to overlay over thing?

Which is The Operating system For gaming in Labtop ( core i7 ram 4GB No Graphics card)? Someone suggest please.

does the rainmeter stuff overwhelm the system?

Is Rainmeter Legit and Free windows & mac? Haven't use it or heard of it

I still think windows 11 looks good, but I have turned off a lot of the effects to make my system be *that* much more snappy.

3:53 The reason is if i'm already searching for the package name I'll just click the download button on the page...

What is the cpu usage like is it lightweight?

Hey Chris, I need your serious help man I am using your windows debloat utility from last 2 years no issues so far But from last 1 week I am stumbled upon a major problem (already clean installed ws10 pro 3 times but still stucked) I am using windows 10 pro The moment I clean install (with all windows update and drivers update) alongwith debloating everything works fine for exactly 2 days after that Internet access for windows app is gone like crazy no access to internet Whereas it is working fine for everything just fine like chrome, spotify etc also working fine on windows sandbox I am on ethernet connection on a DEsktop I dont know whether it is something wrong with scheduler or what that it restricts internet to native apps after like 2 days. I tried plugging in an external usb wifi dongle still same issue I am very frustated tried each n every fix available on internet but can't resolve it please help Please I don't want to use windows without debloating PLease help 😫😫😢😢

Ohh i remember the days when i used this 😁,wasting hours to make a perfect desktop. Deviant art was my main source of skins

how did you swap from windows to linux so fast? i really wanna do that but cant find a video on that

Like has been planted!

I thought I was the only one who forgets i actually have tabs on my Explorer 💀

If I was a win guy, I'd do this. I like it

If you want weather, use WeatherDesk_API

You made me wanna switch back to windows...

Maybe change the title to include "Windows" somewhere to attract the people who truly have no idea what rainmeter is and if you're talking about Windows?

Rainmeter the only program without nagwear thats been around for 20 years

you are really professional I still have a few 🥶problems with Windows 7 installing the driver, for example Nvidia or Revo uninstalled, I can't install error code🥶 0xc0000005 if I de-install Regedit Wow6432Node, it goes back to the next driver if you would help me, I'm very THANKFUL👍🥶 😤

Im using tools from stardock to customize my windows :-)

Rain Meter consumes more system usage

Today the master debloater teaches you to install bloat

👏👏👏 Gracias 👍

Rainmeter is my 2009 pc

how to make it slow

N O S T A L G I A

There I was thinking wallpaper engine was cool, XD

Can't even open a rainmeter file in windows

Well conky for windows ;)