Removing the right click context menu

[viewtiful]

Bit of an unusual question here, but we used to use Rainmeter 2.1, and we had disabled the right click context menus by removing them from the rainmeter.dll.

We want to make the move to 2.4 so that we can use the !LoadLayout bang, but it seems that the dll has now changed and we can't remove the menus in the same way any more.

Has anyone got any suggestions on how this could be achieved?

Basically the end result is that we want to load Rainmeter, but then not allow the user to make any changes or to exit the program.

[StarburstSpectrum]

Could you not just use the ClickThrough option?

[jsmorley]

Really not possible in any comprehensive way. The Rainmeter.ini file must be in a folder where the program can both read and write to it, which means it will be difficult not to have the user also have access to this file. Once they have that, and access to the skins folder, they can change about anything they like.

Now, as far as some "locks are to keep honest people honest" variant short of that, just disabling right-click and removing the Rainmeter icon from the notification area, that really can't be done with existing tools or commands in a way that is likely to satisfy.

You can remove the icon from the notification area with a setting of TrayIcon=0 in Rainmeter.ini.

As that other user mentioned, you can set ClickThrough=1 in each config section in Rainmeter.ini, but that has other limitations you may not want. The user will not be able to drag any skins to different screen locations, and no skin will be able to be interactive in any way.

Another option is to put a RightMouseUpAction=[] at the top of each skin in the [Rainmeter] section. This will disable the right click context menu.

In any case, these at best would keep folks from "playing around" or otherwise accidentally changing something, and be aware that they can be overridden by the user by holding down CTRL when clicking.

Actually disabling the right click context menu in any reliable way while not losing the rest of the functionality of the skins will probably mean downloading the source code and following the instructions at https://github.com/rainmeter/rainmeter#readme. Then assuming you have someone who has at least some basic knowledge of C++, make the changes you want and build new versions of Rainmeter.exe and Rainmeter.dll. You are welcome to use modified versions of Rainmeter for your own use, as long as you don't distribute publicly. That we would strongly object to.

To be honest, nothing you are going to be able to do is going to be more than a very simple "make it hard to change accidentally" approach. Rainmeter is intended and designed to be accessible to users, and there is really NO reliable way you are going to be able to lock it down. That is our intent...

[OH SNAP998]

Bit of an unusual question here, but we used to use Rainmeter 2.1, and we had disabled the right click context menus by removing them from the rainmeter.dll.

We want to make the move to 2.4 so that we can use the !LoadLayout bang, but it seems that the dll has now changed and we can't remove the menus in the same way any more.

Has anyone got any suggestions on how this could be achieved?

Basically the end result is that we want to load Rainmeter, but then not allow the user to make any changes or to exit the program.

why are you talking like gollum? lost in translation maybe?