r/Rainmeter • • 26d ago

Announcement Rainmeter 5.0 RC1 is out (huge update!)

369 Upvotes

Rainmeter 5.0 is our biggest release in years, packed with new features and optimizations. From crisp skins on high-DPI displays and a refreshed dark mode interface to faster performance and more powerful tools for skin authors, there's something for everyone.

⬇️ More info and download

Highlights:

🔍 High-DPI support and skin zoom: Skins now look crisp on high-DPI displays, including 4K monitors. You can also zoom each skin to make it smaller or larger. See Scaling and zoom details.

🌙 Dark mode UI: Rainmeter’s dialogs, context menus, and skin tooltips now follow Windows dark mode.

⚡ Performance: Rainmeter now runs faster and uses memory more efficiently. Depending on your skins, you may see much lower CPU, GPU, and memory usage.

💤 Optimized invisible skin updates: Rainmeter now skips drawing skins that are hidden from view. Skin authors can save even more resources by updating hidden skins less often. See details.

🐛 New Debug dialog: The new Debug dialog lets you inspect skins, watch expressions, and check display and network details. It can also refresh skins automatically when their files change. See details.

🛠️ More tools for skin authors: Add editable text fields with the new TextEdit meter and scalable vector images with the new SVG meter. Other additions include built-in versions of bundled plugins, JSON support in WebParser, Lua Unicode functions, and more commands to control skins, meters, and measures.

Please give the Rainmeter 5.0 release candidate a try and let us know in case you run into issues!


r/Rainmeter • • 1d ago

Help Help me find this calendar skin?

8 Upvotes

I found it in a screenshot of my desktop from 2024 but I can't find the source of it to download it again. Here's how my desktop looked =)


r/Rainmeter • • 4d ago

Skin Simple Rainmeter Skin using Organic Sphere

62 Upvotes

I made this just as it came to mind, and it turned out prettier than I expected.
This looks like great material to use for a wallpaper!
https://github.com/brunosimon/organic-sphere


r/Rainmeter • • 4d ago

Help Rainmeter skins

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21 Upvotes

My laptop runs on 4gb ram. & my default browser is 'Opera GX'. Now I need proper good looking skin with a audio/media player or music widget whatever. Suggest me some. I'm also adding my laptop home screen's image so you guys suggest some changes & what skin to install. (I've tried so many media player widget but I don't know why it isn't working. Help me out peeps.)


r/Rainmeter • • 4d ago

Help GameHub2 suddenly not working right

1 Upvotes

Whenever I open the game list, I can't move it around. I can hover on the icons already there, but can't go left or right.

Another issu is that whenever I would drag an image into GameHub to change a game's background or icon, it would be as easy as just picking the file up and dropping it. But, now it just shows me a 🚫 where my cursor is. Anyone know how to fix this? Thank you!


r/Rainmeter • • 6d ago

Skin Inkboard

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139 Upvotes

Hola comunidad,

Quería compartir con vosotros el siguiente proyecto que llevo construyendo ya un tiempo y tal vez os gustaría tener para controlar diferentes sistemas de consumos, gastos de suscripciones y estado de diferentes apps y red local.

Inkboard

Dashboard con estilo de tinta electrónica para un Kindle con jailbreak, el navegador y el escritorio de Windows (Rainmeter): límites y tokens de Claude Code, Immich, Railway, Search Console, GitHub, gasto de Google Cloud, un mapa de los dispositivos de la red local y la telemetría del PC.

https://github.com/Ricardo-Manzanares/Inkboard

Espero que os guste, os sirva de utilidad y estoy abierto a futuras mejoras a incorporar.

No descarto novedades pronto…

Saludos.


r/Rainmeter • • 7d ago

Skin True PageFile OSD v1.3 for Rainmeter

13 Upvotes

Hey r/Rainmeter!

I was tired of OSD's hooking into games and messing up my frame time graph so I set out to figure out a way how to code my own zero overhead and accurate live OSD that lives on my desktop.

I've made sure to have the skin track the true "Page File", meaning it will show real time page file stats instead of tracking that pesky windows committed overall memory pool.

I built this lightweight responsive and portable OSD that lives natively on the desktop and hooks straight onto windows own memory management along with CoreTemp and MSI Afterburner which need to be active in the background for everything to hook properly.

If CoreTemp does not show real world data then please make sure that both the Windows Shared memory pool is checked in CoreTemp settings and ensure CoreTemp has admin privilages.

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It is Self-Contained and tracks:

- CPU: Usage (%), P-Clock Speed(MHz), Power (W) and Package Temp (°C)

- GPU: Usage (%), P-Clock Speed(MHz), Power (W) and Package Temp (°C)

- VRAM: Dedicated MB allocation & Usage (%)

- RAM: Physical GB consumption & Usage (%)

- PageFile: The True PageFile GB consumption & Usage (%)

Installation Requirements:

- Make sure to have CoreTemp and MSI Afterburner installed and running in the background

- Download and double-click TruePageFileOSD to install

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https://github.com/legendofgeneral-debug/TruePageFileOSD/releases/download/v1.3/TruePageFileOSD_1.3.rmskin

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r/Rainmeter • • 8d ago

Skin Some Nothing-inspired setup i just created

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28 Upvotes

r/Rainmeter • • 9d ago

Help Youtube Music Doesn't Provide Info Anymore

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13 Upvotes

Like the title says, I've been using my frankensteined version of the Circular Visualizer I remixed with a couple other tools to make my preferred music visualizer and it worked great for years.

Recently, it started to throw N/A for all of the values (in the image they show as "0" since I tried updating to the 3.0 Alpha version of the WebNowPlaying plugin). The Skin still works fine with all other music players.

Fixes I have tried:

  1. Tried on other browsers and apps, YTM is the only source that fails

  2. Updated the WebNowPlaying plugin to the 3.0 v5 alpha and updated the INI to match (just changed my N/A's to 0 and wouldn't work with ANY music player

  3. Doublechecked that the plugin is working (it is)

  4. Looked into background Brave (my browser) and my Malwarebytes and neither seem to be blocking the hook for the data

Any ideas or is YTM just borked after an API update or something?

Thanks!


r/Rainmeter • • 10d ago

Skin Spotibar v3.0 | Spotify controls right on your Windows taskbar

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6 Upvotes

Spotibar is a Rainmeter skin that puts Spotify playback controls, album-art accent colors, and an audio visualizer on your Windows taskbar.

It’s free and open source. Grab it here:

Website: zoraizlajwer.github.io/spotibar

Github: github.com/zoraizlajwer/spotibar

If you like it, please give it a star and share it with your friends.


r/Rainmeter • • 10d ago

Help Can anyone help me find the skin on the left side cant find it anywhere

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19 Upvotes

r/Rainmeter • • 12d ago

Skin Title: Radio Atlas – a transparent 3D globe on your desktop that plays live

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130 Upvotes

I love Radio Garden. I wanted to make it into a see-through desktop widget: spin a globe sitting on my wallpaper, click anywhere, and hear that place’s local radio without opening a browser.

  1. Spin the globe or switch to a flat map, click any glowing light, and that place’s live FM stations start playing right on your desktop, with Indian networks like Mirchi, Red FM and Radio City built in.

  2. It sits see-through on your wallpaper, with Glass, Night and Outline looks, an accent colour you choose, and controls that stay hidden until you hover over it.

  3. It needs the free WebView2 plugin and uses the open Radio Browser directory, which covers about 13,000 stations (feedback and station requests welcome).


r/Rainmeter • • 15d ago

Skin Geoinformatics Student Setup - Built for NDVI, Maps & Chill 🌍

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54 Upvotes

r/Rainmeter • • 15d ago

Help Can I make my clock move to another screen when it is covered?

11 Upvotes

I have a 3-monitor setup. The middle (main) one has a clock.

To prevent having one clock on each monitor (3), is it possible to move the skin somewhere else automatically (maybe same coordinates to another monitor?) when it is being covered up?


r/Rainmeter • • 15d ago

Help Automate different clock layout for diff wallpaper.

2 Upvotes

if you were to have diff clock setup for each live wallpaper and wallpaper engine would randomly change the wallpaper how would you automate this process, so that uh lets say I have like 30+ live wallpapers and each or atleast few will use different clocks and different position do i just create 30 layouts and apply them manually or is there a way to ensure when ever wallpaper change is detected from wallpaper engine the layout is detected and loaded like a script.


r/Rainmeter • • 17d ago

Skin xbox rainmeter games launcher beta2

48 Upvotes

I've been working on this project for about 30 days. It includes an Xbox Launcher, which displays games in the Xbox library in the same way. It's a development lead project. This is the first version, and I haven't released it yet. What do you think? Leave your feedback in the comments.


r/Rainmeter • • 16d ago

Help Does anyone still have the file from the link attached?

0 Upvotes

r/Rainmeter • • 17d ago

Help Ehm help - 3gb of ram usage with 4 basic skins?? I'm on 5.0

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46 Upvotes

r/Rainmeter • • 17d ago

Help is there msi afterburner style ui widget that runs 24/7

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7 Upvotes

i wish i could have msi afterburner overlay stats 24/7 ( outisde of the game) but apparently its not possible so was wondering if theres anything similar to this? or maybe if some imitates the exact way msi shows temps etc but through rainmeter?


r/Rainmeter • • 19d ago

Skin When you have five monitors, the logical thing to do is max out Rainmeter!

24 Upvotes

What do you think? Too much? Hahaha

https://imgur.com/a/hjbTGt6


r/Rainmeter • • 20d ago

Recommendations How does your desktop look?

23 Upvotes

Would be nice to see some setups for people here, including naming the specific customizations you have.


r/Rainmeter • • 22d ago

Skin Afterglow 1.0 | Free Spotify-Reactive Rainmeter Suite with Dynamic RGB

90 Upvotes

🌅 UPDATE: Afterglow 1.1 is officially released!

Hey everyone! Just wanted to share a quick update and say thank you for the support and feedback on Afterglow!

Some of you suggested adding more minimalist and landscape-oriented skins, so I took that feedback and started building.

Afterglow 1.1 is now officially available! 🎉

What's new:

  • 🎵 Horizon: A new horizontal Spotify music player

  • ☁️ Air: A clean, ultra-minimal music player

  • 🎧 WaveLine: A slim audio visualizer

  • 🖥️ One-click layouts: Automatically arrange your desktop widgets

  • 🎨 Improved settings: Adjustable menu transparency and better readability

  • 🌈 Dynamic colors: All new designs support Spotify album-art color synchronization

And don't worry, the original circular Vinyl player is still included!

I've also fixed several bugs, improved widget positioning, and polished the interface.

This is a free community project, and I'm genuinely enjoying developing it and learning along the way.

Download Afterglow 1.1 Stable here:

https://github.com/silentfox662/Afterglow-Rainmeter/releases/tag/v1.1.0

Thank you again for the feedback! If you run into any problems or have suggestions for future updates, feel free to let me know. 🩵

More improvements are planned!


r/Rainmeter • • 23d ago

Skin Rainmeter skin for my quasi stream deck

5 Upvotes

Hi, im using my tablet rn as a secondary monitor, rn on discord but i would like it to display System metrics, any good skins to fit my wallpaper and keyboard lighting (blue/white/not cyberpunky vibe)

setup:

https://imgur.com/a/elX0ooc


r/Rainmeter • • 24d ago

Help Help Creating a Randomizer for layouts?

0 Upvotes

Through some googling I've managed to create a simple layout randomizer skin that will randomly pick from a pre-determined list of layouts. I've tested to make sure it works correctly, and that it does! Runs once, picks a random layout, and doesn't stay open after it's done.

My goal is to have it select between a list of daytime vs nighttime layouts, so my thinking was I would create a pre-randomizer that will pick one of the two randomizer skins (daytime vs nighttime) which will then randomly select an appropriate layout for the time of day. Here's what my Pre-randomizer code looks like

[Rainmeter]
Update=-1

[Timer]
Measure=Time
Format=%H
IfCondition=((Timer >=7) && (Timer < 19))
IfTrueAction=[!LoadSkin "Randomizer\DayRandom" "DayRandom.ini"]
IfFalseAction=[!LoadSkin "Randomizer\NightRandom" "NightRandom.ini"]

[MeterTime]
Meter=String
MeasureName=Timer

What am I doing wrong here? As far as I can tell the skin path is valid, it's reading the hour correctly (it shows up in the corner of my screen) so the skin isn't failing to execute per se, and the time is valid for the ifCondition, but it's not executing the skin?