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Elementary

for Rainmeter, ver. 1.5.1

Simple, clean Rainmeter skins, for someone who does not need to monitor their overclocked 6-core processor, but does want the time and date on their desktop.

The Elementary skin set currently includes time, date, weather (current conditions and three-day forecast), basic system monitor, analog clock, and "chronophage" (ornamental/time tracking) skins.

(Alternate screenshot, showing more of the skins)

How to:


:bulletblue: Make sure you have Rainmeter installed (version 2.3). [link] If you are new to Rainmeter, you may want to check out some walkthroughs to get familiar with the program, like Rainmeter 101 [link] or this Lifehacker article [link]
:bulletblue: Download the .rmskin file from the link near the top right of this page. You should be able to run the file with Rainstaller, which will put all the files in the right places on your system.
:bulletblue: Edit the file "...\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\Elementary\@Resources\Settings.txt" to change settings. "...\Rainmeter\Skins\Elementary\ReadMe.rtf" has explanations of all the options!

Notes on this update:


:bulletred: Rainmeter 2.3 is required for Elementary version 1.5! (Check the change log if you need to know the reasons...)
:bulletred: Added a "Language" setting in Settings.txt! Currently, valid options are en, de, es, fr, nl, and ber. Please see the ReadMe for details, including how to translate Elementary yourself to a language that isn't already included.
:bulletred: Because of the new @Resources folder, you should no longer have to install any fonts for the skin to work (and thus don't need admin privileges). If, for whatever reason, you do need to install the fonts, the files are located in "...\Elementary\@Resources\Fonts\"

As usual, feel free to leave questions, comments, and suggestions.
Bug reports are especially appreciated. ;)

If you like these skins, here are some others to definitely check out:
Sorinu made a System Uptime skin to match Elementary: [link]

JackDMF Remixed the complete set and added more skins of their own in the Elementary style, including Google News, Now Playing, and GMail skins! [link]

Credits:


The primary font is Century Gothic, designed by Monotype Imaging [link]

The secondary font is Futurist Fixed-Width, by WSI [link]

Wallpaper which inspired these skins, was used for the Rainstaller banner image, and is in the screenshot above is "Elementary" by emats: [link]

Translators!
~timpieee (Dutch)
~MathieuStng (French)
~Blugi (Spanish)
~JackDMF (German)
~Ya2sine (Tamazight)
wmw301 (Portuguese)

Change Log:


10/1/12
:bulletgreen: Reset the required version in the .rmskin back down to 2.3.3.1522. Sorry guys!

8/29/12 (version 1.5.1)
:bulletgreen: Fixed "23th" bug in date skin

8/18/12
:bulletgreen: Added Portuguese translation

7/23/12
:bulletgreen: Added Tamazight translation

6/27/2012 (version 1.5.0)
:bulletgreen: Fixed typo in link to WeatherUnderground in eWeather_f.ini
:bulletgreen: Reformatted skin folder for Rainmeter 2.3 structure changes (@Resources)
:bulletgreen: Skins updated to reflect deprecation of "!Execute" and "!Rainmeter" in bangs
:bulletgreen: Added "Languages" folder and "language" variable in Settings.txt
(files for English, French, German, Dutch, and Spanish; and a template)
:bulletgreen: New .rmskin format

9/26/2011 (version 1.4.3)
:bulletgreen: Skin files modified to use Meter Styles (shorter)
:bulletgreen: Weather translation substitutions are now case insensitive
:bulletgreen: Clicking "via Weather Underground" in the weather skin now takes you to the Wunder page for the location you entered in Settings.txt, not to the page parsed from the XML feed, which was sometimes incorrect.

9/16/2011 (version 1.4.2)
:bulletgreen: Tweaked weather substitution strings ("chance of a" before "chance of")
:bulletgreen: Advanced day of week number in Chronophage skin by 1 (Sunday is now day 1, not day 0)
:bulletgreen: Added language subs for Wind direction
:bulletgreen: Fixed current condtions tooltip in eWeather_c.ini to display wind speed it Kilometers/hour
:bulletgreen: In Readme.ini dummy skin, changed !DeacitvateConfig to !RainmeterDeactivateConfig so it will work with Rainmeter versions below 2.1
:bulletgreen: Updated skin metadata to comply with Rainmeter 2.1 changes
:bulletgreen: Changed character encoding of skin .ini files to UTF-8
:bulletgreen: All .ini files are now definitely Windows/DOS ANSI encoded. For sure. Hopefully.

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:iconaltheablue:
Been using this for a while. Thank you!
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:iconjames1black1:
~James1Black1 Mar 26, 2013  New member
Is it possible to show wind speed like it does temperate? Without putting your mouse over?
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:iconflyinghyrax:
Sure. The skin already parses the wind speed data, so you just have to use the wind speed measure [msrWindSpeed] in a String meter (either making a new meter or adding another measurename to an existing meter).
I can probably walk you through the changes if you need it, though you might want to be more specific about what you want it to look like, and no guarantees on when I get around to writing it up (pretty busy with school).
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:iconthe-sax-man:
Hi,

Your rainmeter theme is great! However I'm having trouble changing the font. I've opened up the settings file, saved it, reloaded everything, but it's still in the default font. Could you help?
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:iconflyinghyrax:
Hi the-sax-man,
Take a look here: Fonts Guide - Rainmeter Tips and Tricks
and here: RainFont - Rainmeter Forums
Rainmeter can be pretty picky about font names. ~jsmorleys RainFont utility (second link) might help.
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:icontoxicnano666:
Used here [link]
What do you think?
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:iconflyinghyrax:
Nice! I like the colors. :thumbsup:
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:icontoxicnano666:
Hey1 Great stuff :)

Used it here [link]
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:iconney2x:
I modified this to blend with my other skins, I hope you don't get mad at me. Here's the screenshots ---> [link]
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