Replace the image inside the skin’s folder with the one you edited. Change its color using an image editor (use ). You should know the name of the image you need to edit from the Notepad file. In some cases, the images might just be located at the root of the skin’s folder. Inside, you will find a folder called Resources which will contain all the images used by the skin. To change the color of the image used by the skin, go to your Documents library and open Rainmeter\Skins\NameOfSkin. No text is being used in this skin so there’s no text color to change. We’re changing the line color of the skin to green, and the color of the image used to a bright orange so that the difference is easier to see. We’re not making everything green because, given how the skin is designed, it will make things impossible to read. Next, look for all images it uses.įor the Skin color, time color, line color, etc., value, you can edit the Notepad file and enter the new color. For example, the skin we’re editing has skin color, time color, and line color. Go through the file that opens and note down all occurrences of any color related values. Right-click the skin, and select Edit skin from the context menu. You will need an image editor to change the color of the image because Rainmeter will load the image as it is provided in the skin’s resources.
Find a skin that uses both text and images.
For this simple skin, the color had to be changed in three different places. I’m changing the color for this skin from black to green. Replace the value for it with the RGB value of the color you want to display the skin in.Ī single skin file may have multiple occurrences of Font Color, and you will need to change the value for each one. In this file, you want to look for ‘Font Color’ and all other instances of values that mention color. This will open the skin’s configuration file in Notepad. Text Based Rainmeter Skinįor a Rainmeter skin that is entirely text based e.g., one that displays a simple digital clock and does not use any image sources, it’s pretty easy to change the color. If you’ve got such a skin, right-click it and select Edit Skin from the context menu. That’s why changing the color of a Rainmeter skin can be a bit hard. This is because a skin has lot of different UI elements that make it up.
In some cases, they might have light or dark themes but users cannot freely change the color of a Rainmeter skin. Rainmeter skins don’t usually come with color variations.
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