Possible bug in the installer / skin installer?

[jsmorley]

Yeah, I like Rainmeter to keep a birds-eye-view on things...

[Yincognito]

Gosh, it's beautiful! Unfortunately, I can't use the visual might of Rainmeter fully, for practical reasons: it takes space on the screen, in the Stay Topmost scenario that I use. The setup you used might be suited for a clear Windows screen, but when you have another application window active, you can't set the skins to Stay Topmost, really.

That meant I had to design my skins to take the least space as possible - thus their size. This way, for example, I can see a Chrome tab text or click on close that tab without giving up on seeing the skins at all times. Now with my updated design and my "one row" layout, I have them like a 12px bar at the top of my screen, without negatively affecting anything:

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I had plans to make a feeds ticker in Rainmeter as well, if you remember, but had to give up for the same reason: it takes too much space for my needs. Fortunaly there are some Chrome extensions using the Windows 10 notification capabilities, so that settled it. I miss my "old" feeds ticker from Firefox though - it took some CPU usage, but it was one of the best extensions I ever used, from a practical POV.

[jsmorley]

Well, with my moderately wide monitor, 1920px, I can easily work with the Rainmeter skins on the right and bottom and keep my other applications sized to fit in the remaining space. Then I don't have to fight with Stay on top.

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[jsmorley]

Of course I have a second monitor for some other Rainmeter stuff to live on...

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[jsmorley]

So It's not hard to work in that free area on my desktop...

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[Yincognito]

I tried a similar approach to yours, but forcing applications to occupy a certain space on the screen (using Rainmeter's settings, of course). Some applications or events however broke Rainmeter's setup at times, so I've given up on that idea. I can't do much with such an approach on a 1366x768 px laptop screen anyway, not to mention that I have a (weird?) preference for maximized windows - those are not vulnerable to occasional window moves, change of position, etc. My screen is small enough as it is (and I like it like that) and some applications actually need such a resolution as a minimum, to be able to take that road...

I do have a monitor from my old PC that I could use as a second monitor, but that would defeat the whole purpose of having a laptop, IMHO.

[jsmorley]

Yep, to each his own for sure, I'm more of a desktop / huge monitor guy. I have my Kindle Fire HD 10 tablet and my LG G7 ThinQ phone for "portable" needs.

[Yincognito]

Yep, to each his own for sure, I'm more of a desktop / huge monitor guy. I have my Kindle Fire HD 10 tablet and my LG G7 ThinQ phone for "portable" needs.

I used to be a desktop guy as well, until I realized that I did too much of a heavy lifting when moving my desktop around (the case, monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer/scanner, audio system, etc. combined), when I temporarily changed "homes" a couple of years ago. I have friends with that huge screens obsession too, so I get what you mean. For me now, nothing beats a laptop if you want to have the best of both worlds (desktop+mobile) on a single device. I'm also using my smartphone for light stuff sometimes, but you wouldn't want to use it for more 'advanced' stuff like video & image editing, programming, TV tuner recording or real games, now would you?

[jsmorley]

I used to be a desktop guy as well, until I realized that I did too much of a heavy lifting when moving my desktop around (the case, monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer/scanner, audio system, etc. combined), when I temporarily changed "homes" a couple of years ago. I have friends with that huge screens obsession too, so I get what you mean. For me now, nothing beats a laptop if you want to have the best of both worlds (desktop+mobile) on a single device. I'm also using my smartphone for light stuff sometimes, but you wouldn't want to use it for more 'advanced' stuff like video & image editing, programming, TV tuner recording or real games, now would you?

No, I wouldn't. Of course I wouldn't do video or image editing or play real games on a 15 or 17 inch laptop monitor either. I want my 32 inch beast for that...

[Yincognito]

No, I wouldn't. Of course I wouldn't do video or image editing or play real games on a 15 or 17 inch laptop monitor either. I want my 32 inch beast for that...

As long as it has Rainmeter on it, you can't go wrong...