desktopworkarea

[Chesshudson]

I'm having trouble getting there desktop work area to work and i'm wondering what i'm doing wrong. if i've put the text in the wrong spot or if i've put it in wrong.

[Rainmeter]
SkinPath=C:\Users\Chess\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\
Logging=0
DisableVersionCheck=0
DisableDragging=0
Desktopworkarea=0, 44, 200, 0

[Brian]

You have the values a little mixed up. You are setting the top left corner to (0, 44) which is fine, but then you tell Rainmeter to set the bottom right corner to (200, 0) which doesn't make sense. The second zero should be a higher value than 44.

-Brian

[Chesshudson]

what i'm trying to do is make it so that when i maximize windows it doesn't cover my sidebar and taskbar.

[Brian]

Without knowing where your sidebar and taskbar are, I can't help.

If your taskbar is at the bottom of the screen, AND your sidebar is at the right of the screen, then it would look like something like this DesktopWorkArea=0, 0, (screen width - sidebar width), (screen height - taskbar height). Hope that made sense.

-Brian

[Chesshudson]

Alright, thanks, that helps clear things up a bit. So what if my taskbar is at the top and my sidebar is on the left? also i've put in some random numbers to test it out and nothing happened for a awhile and then all of a sudden it started working so i deleted the numbers and the effect wouldn't stop.

[Brian]

Then it would look like this:
DesktopWorkArea=(Sidebar Width), (Taskbar Height), #SCREENAREAWIDTH#, #SCREENAREAHEIGHT#

-Brian

[Chesshudson]

alright so now it looks like this

DesktopWorkArea= 0, 44, (1600 - 200), 1200

and I can't figure out how to get it to use this

[Brian]

Try
DesktopWorkArea= 200, 44, 1600, 1200

So I am assuming that your taskbar is 44 in height, and your sidebar is 200 in width, right?

-Brian

[Chesshudson]

yes and i've put that in now i'm lost because my maximized windows still cover the entire screen. i've refreshed all quite a few times now.

[Brian]

Did you try quitting Rainmeter, then re-starting it? The changes won't take affect until you restart rainmeter.

-Brian