On November 30 2008 10:32 sith wrote: I use Rainmeter, which so far I've found very unobtrusive and light, as well as extremely customizable.
That looks really nice. I've been messing around with it and I can find a skin with the features I like. Which one are you using there?
I think it's probably the Black Glass skin? (Black Glass). I remember it coming up before in one of the Desktop threads...
Also, I don't know how useful to you this might be, but a quick Google'ing revealed The Ultimate Windows XP Customization Guide, although I don't think it mentions any of the dock, clock, or weather programs that you're looking for.
Thats correct, the skin is black glass. I've sent more pm's about it than I care to remember actually, I think I have a preset one that i just send to whoever asks.
It's called "rainmeter" and you can download whatever modules people have made for it. Download "rainmeter" here, (don't download rainlender, thats different) http://www.ipi.fi/~rainy/legacy.html
and @prOxi.swAMi, I'm not incredible sure why it says that, but I'm not about to go try to figure out how to modify the skin to get rid of it when it takes up such a miniscule amount of space.
Ok, well after screwing around with this stuff for a while I've got a rain meter theme I like and rocket dock is working well for me. I've decided I like the task bar and I'm going to leave it down there, but I'd like to modify it to be less obtrusive.
What are you guys using to make your start button a unique icon and your task bars dark and transparent? I gotta get that going on mine before I'll be satisfied with the look.
On December 01 2008 07:41 Descent wrote: Here. You need to change your theme/visual style to change the start button, task bar, and applications windows.
On the topic, does anyone use Object Desktop? I've run litestep for many years, but like some of the things Object Desktop says it can do to menus and dialogs, so I was thinking about trying both. I'm just not sure they'd work together because litestep gets rid of the standard shell.
I've always has that problem if there is a way to set lock the window positions i haven't checked I don't play sc alot anymore so it's never been a bother. Maybe ill check out the rain meter commands/script see if i can set positions on a screen.
Oh well i couldn't make it stay there but i found a semi patch for it Change the Rainmeter.ini to read-only By doing that all you have to do is close and reopen rainmeter and the stuff should stay in the same place.
Yeah, when your comp changes screen resolution rainmeter adjusts to the new resolution. It will do that for any program that goes full screen in a resolution different from your comps resolution.
The only way i can think of is the modify the window size of each thing to fit your max resolution and position it on there but that would require some mess around time for anymore read only is much simpler.
EPT
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