Loading a theme

[sblair1996]

Hi, I am currently writing a program in notepad which gives me options of which rainmeter skin to load, however when i choose, it loads the package and asks for instillation - is there any way to just load the theme?

[Kaelri]

You can load an installed theme with:

"C:\Program Files\Rainmeter\SkinInstaller.exe" /LoadTheme [ThemeName]

Note that a "theme" is not the same thing as a "skin." A theme is a saved layout of skins on your desktop (see here for more). To load a single skin from an external program, use:

"C:\Program Files\Rainmeter\Rainmeter.exe" !ActivateConfig "ConfigName" "SkinName.ini"

[sblair1996]

Thankyou, I tried the first one but it just loaded up the run application.

Where are the skin.ini files? as I cannot seem to find one - or is it the file which rainmeters settings is in? and what is the config name?

thanks again, sam

[sblair1996]

I have found the skin names, sorry. There doesn't seem to be an omnimo one though, however

[Kaelri]

Hi,I was just wondering, but would you be able to give me an example of each? This is what i've tried, thankyou.

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@echo off 
echo Welcome Sam
echo: 
timeout /t 2
echo ........................................................... 
echo Which layout would you like to use today?
echo ........................................................... 
set /p q=Type your answer now and press ENTER when you are done: 
if %q%==Win7 goto 2 
if %q%==Win8 goto 3 
if %q%==Apple goto 4 
if %q%==Ubuntu goto 5 
:2 
cls 
echo You have answered Windows 7.
echo: 
pause 
exit

:3 
cls 
echo You have answered Windows 8.
echo: 
start "D:\Program Files\Rainmeter\SkinInstaller.exe/LoadTheme [Win8_1]"
pause 
exit

:4 
cls 
echo You have answered Apple.
echo: 
start "C:\Users\Sam\Documents\Apple"
pause 
exit

:5 
cls 
echo You have answered Ubuntu.
echo: 
start ""D:\Program Files\Rainmeter\Rainmeter.exe" !ActivateConfig "ConfigName" "Unity-for-Rainmeter.ini"]"
pause 
exit

When loading Win8, it just loads up the run terminal
Any help would be appreciated, thankyou.

You have a few brackets left over from the examples. (The brackets were not part of the syntax; they were just to indicate where to supply your own theme/skin names.)

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start "D:\Program Files\Rainmeter\SkinInstaller.exe" /LoadTheme Win8_1

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start "D:\Program Files\Rainmeter\Rainmeter.exe" !ActivateConfig "ConfigName" "Unity-for-Rainmeter.ini"

The "ConfigName" in the second command needs to be the actual config name. For example, if you have a skin file located in

C:\...\Rainmeter\Skins\WP7\Unity-for-Rainmeter\Unity-for-Rainmeter.ini

then the activate bang would look like this:

!ActivateConfig "WP7\Unity-for-Rainmeter" "Unity-for-Rainmeter.ini"

[sblair1996]

oh, okay, thankyou:)

[sblair1996]

I have just tried copying and pasting your code: start "D:\Program Files\Rainmeter\SkinInstaller.exe" /LoadTheme Win8_1

However, when i run it, it just says "Invalid switch - "/LoadTheme"

any ideas?

[smurfier]

I have just tried copying and pasting your code: start "D:\Program Files\Rainmeter\SkinInstaller.exe" /LoadTheme Win8_1

However, when i run it, it just says "Invalid switch - "/LoadTheme"

any ideas?

What version of rainmeter are you running?

I just successfully used the /LoadTheme switch with the currently posted 2.4 beta.

[sblair1996]

the 2.3.3...should i upgrade to the beta?

[jsmorley]

the 2.3.3...should i upgrade to the beta?

No, /LoadTheme works fine in 2.3.3

You quite sure that Win8_1 is a theme folder in C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\Rainmeter\Themes ?