These are the “with logo” and “without logo” variants of Duck Duck Search.
For example, a 24-hour clock and a 12-hour clock, or different color options for the same skin. Sometimes, the authors include multiple “variants” within a single skin. Skin text files are also sometimes called “configs”. There is a huge list of popular skins later in this post. These widgets, called “skins” are fully customizable, and are created by users, not Rainmeter itself. Rather, it is simply a dashboard that controls a series of widgets, which work together to create an interactive desktop on top of your old ugly one. Rainmeter doesn’t replace the desktop itself. This may get confusing, but power through to the next section! You don’t need to know the exact terminology or understand precisely how the program works in order to use Rainmeter. I have a very small, somewhat glitchy netbook and it still runs great! And the best part is, it’s FREE! It also seems to work on pretty much any computer running Windows. Using a tool called Rainmeter, you can make almost any desktop that you can imagine, from movie hacker to minimalist to saccharine sweet. Umbrella Corp Theme using Burnwell88’s Tech-A Skin While we don’t have the hardware at this level quite yet, did you know that you can get a lot of the same aesthetic and functionality from your personal computer? Imagine turning your boring Windows desktop from this: from Iron Man series (Marvel/Disney), Tron Legacy boardroom (Disney), and Westworld tablet (HBO) Geektool is also much more oriented towards people who are familiar with the command line, as it runs nearly entirely on bash scripts.It’s a staple of science fiction-the futuristic heads up display and the hacker’s elaborate monitor.įrom left to right: J.A.R.V.I.S. For Mac users, there is Geektool, which performs many of the same basic functions such as displaying info on the desktop and some basic widgets, though there isn’t as big of a community following behind it, so the options for skins are limited.
If you’re on a Mac or Linux, unfortunately you’re out of luck, as there isn’t a Rainmeter build for OS X or Linux. Most skins have comments in the configuration file, so it’s easy to tell what controls what. Right click on a skin and hit “Edit skin”, which will bring up a configuration file with lots of variable definitions.įor example, if you wanted to change the color of the outer rim of this clock, you can edit the values of the variable that controls that. If you want to get your hands dirty with the code behind the skins, it isn’t too complex. Rainmeter allows for an amazing amount of customization.
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