![]() ![]() Rainmeter takes desktop customization to the next level by making it possible to integrate system information such as CPU, RAM usage, time and date, application functionality such as media player etc. It is an open source software and it is free of charge. One of the really powerful tools for creating customizable and functional desktop skins is Rainmeter. You can get stickers for your Macbook, upload desktop images to create a certain mood and now you can even customize your desktop skin to fit your exact needs. ![]() So basically, you need to figure out just how many pixels from the top edge of the screen your skin stops at! I was afraid that I would now have to fight with all the rotator meters to get them re-aligned, however, the answer was to simply add Y=-64 (which is how far my trees were from the top of the screen), to the style that ALL of the meters use.Customizing the features on your personal computer to be unique has never been as hot as it is today. However, you still need to use the full size square image in the meter. I did this by cropping my background image, then looking to see what the size of the new image was. BUT you do need to figure out how far from the top of the screen you are. My final solution, was to crop only the background image down to the tops of the trees, making the image now 500x436 (Sorry, I had forgotten that I switched back the the uncropped version). The problem as you can see in the uploaded image, was that there was a large invisible space at the top of the background image (the one containing all the trees), that prevented it from being moved to the top of the screen. When I make a clock, I start with a perfectly square background, as that makes setting up the all the rotators easy. } ] I have seen other post in the past where people have asked this type of question, so I thought I would post how I was able to fix it. It's amazing how much clearer a person can think after 7 hours sleep. Ok, the fix for this was actually far easier than I thought it would be. Press Alt+Space together, release them and press M, then use the arrow keys to move the window." to move it. This is likely a design decision based on the fact that the area used to drag a skin is at the top of the window (in a normal app) and MS doesn't want to go back to the bad 'ol days when you could accidentally move a window's title bar outside the top and not be able to drag it back anymore and end up with a window that requires "Click anywhere on the window so it's got focus. The long and the short of it is that Windows really doesn't want stuff hanging outside the top of the screen. You might be able to force a negative Y and then set "click through" so you can't touch it, but I'm not sure what will happen if you unload and load the skin or when you reboot. You can actually force it there with a negative number in WindowY in Rainmeter.ini (or by setting a negative number in Manage for the Y coordinate), but as soon as you drag it even one pixel with the mouse it will snap fully onto the screen. ![]() Yes, Windows will not allow any window (not just Rainmeter) to extend above the top of the screen. }:[ I am just wondering why this ONLY affects the top of the screen.? Any ideas on why? If I crop the images, it will play hell with the offsets and getting things positioned correctly. As you can see, it will go off the sides and the bottom no problem, But when I drag it to the top and let go of the mouse, it "snaps" back down to it's current height on the screen. However, even after unchecking "Keep On Screen" and "Snap To Edges", it refuses to go any higher on the screen. }:] Anyways, I know there is an "invisible" portion of the clock that extends up just as high as the tree at the bottom extends down. CybOrSpasm wrote:Ok, guess what I am working on. ![]()
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