{"id":51,"date":"2012-01-14T22:26:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T06:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2012-01-14T22:33:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T06:33:52","slug":"rainmeter-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Rainmeter Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-58\" style=\"line-height: 18px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial;\" title=\"rainmeter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/rainmeter1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"455\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I finally decided to start using <a href=\"http:\/\/rainmeter.net\/cms\/\">Rainmeter <\/a>to monitor my system resources. I had previously used some<br \/>\n(admittedly very good) windows 7 widgets you can find <a href=\"http:\/\/addgadget.com\/\">here<\/a>, but I&#8217;ve always liked the way Rainmeter looked better. When I tried to use it in the past I was turned off by the initial learning curve, specifically in customizing the &#8216;skins&#8217;. For example, I have a 6 core CPU but the <a href=\"http:\/\/rainmeter.net\/cms\/SuitesEnigma\">Enigma <\/a>theme only supported monitoring of 2. Today I finally decided to bite the bullet and learn some of the odd meta language used to customize Rainmeter skins and managed to create a 6 CPU system monitor solution:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This uses 2 skins&#8230;the original system skin supporting 2 CPUs and an additional &#8216;System2&#8217; skin I created which adds CPUs 3-6. For those who might want to use it, I&#8217;ve uploaded the 2 files needed here. They&#8217;ll both need to be renamed as &#8216;.ini&#8217; as I can&#8217;t upload ini files. The first will need to go in &#8220;&#8230;\/Rainmeter\/Skins\/Enigma\/Sidebar\/System2&#8221; (a new folder) as System.ini<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/System.txt\">System.ini in Enigma\/Sidebar\/System2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second will need to go in &#8220;&#8230;\/Rainmeter\/Skins\/Enigma\/Resources\/Styles\/Enigma Dark&#8221; (or you can make a similar new file in light) as SidebarSystem2.inc<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/SidebarSystem2.txt\">SidebarSystem2.inc in Enigma\/Resources\/Styles\/Enigma Dark<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally decided to start using Rainmeter to monitor my system resources. I had previously used some (admittedly very good) windows 7 widgets you can find here, but I&#8217;ve always liked the way Rainmeter looked better. When I tried to use it in the past I was turned off by the initial learning curve, specifically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,7,13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customizing","category-diy","category-programs","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thearbweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}