I've been using Rainmeter for quite a while now, and I still know very little. I used to use Samurize but it was discontinued. And it wasn't as flexible as Rainmeter also..
So I didn't make massive modifications or get fancy themes and skins. I just stuck with illustro, which is very functional, and just modded the disks.ini skin so it could suit me setup, since I have three hard drives. To do that, I simply followed the logic brought in the comments part at the beginning of disk.ini file. Worked well.
But I realized the meters actually confused me: they display the 'used' and not the 'free' space, so I made a little tweak by changing "1" to "0" in "InvertMeasure=0". I'd like Rainmeter to display like we're intuitively used to read, which is this:
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/NM7Gh9d.jpg)
That's a Windows Explorer snap. It's in Portuguese, so replace "livre(s)" with "free". As you can see, the blue bars display the used ammount, but the labels below display the free space. On the other hand, this is how disk.ini is displaying:
![Image](http://i.imgur.com/z4TryaD.jpg)
The labels indicate the free space, but the orange bars also indicate the free space, confusing me! I'd like to have the orange bars fill the field according to the used space, leaving the label display "x GB free".
I'm running Windows 7, 1680x1050 resolution, three hard drives, and Rainmeter version is 2.5.0 r1842 64bit (mar 24 2013).
My config (disk.ini) is as follows. What should I change?
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; Lines starting ; (semicolons) are commented out.
; That is, they do not affect the code and are here for demonstration purposes only.
; ----------------------------------
; HOWTO: Adding more disks
; ----------------------------------
; Adding more disks is a pretty straightforward process. Follow the following steps to turn
; this 2 disks skin into a 3 disks skin. You can then extend it even further as you wish.
;
; 1) Create a new variable called disk3=X: directly below disk2=D: in the [Variables] section
; 2) Create a copy of the [measureTotalDisk2] and [measureUsedDisk2] sections
; 3) Rename the copied sections to [measureTotalDisk3] and [measureUsedDisk3], respectively.
; Also change Drive=#disk2# to Drive=#disk3#
; 4) Create a copy of the [meterLabelDisk2], [meterValueDisk2], and [meterBarDisk2].
; Rename all Disk2's in the copied sections to Disk3.
; 5) Now we need to change the Y= values to adjust height. Change Y= under [meterLabelDisk3]
; to Y=80 (calculated by adding 20 to the Y= value of previous meterLabel).
; Then change Y= under [meterBarDisk3] to Y=92 (calculated by adding 20 to the Y= value of previous
meterBar).
; 6) Save the file as '3 Disks.ini'. Now right-click on the Rainmeter tray icon and select
; 'Refresh All'. Now go activate the '3 Disks.ini' skin and enjoy! :)
[Rainmeter]
; This section contains general settings that can be used to change how Rainmeter behaves.
Author=poiru
AppVersion=2003000
Update=1000
Background=#@#Background.png
; #@# is equal to Rainmeter\Skins\illustro\@Resources
BackgroundMode=3
BackgroundMargins=0,34,0,14
[Metadata]
; Contains basic information of the skin.
Description=Displays disk usage.
License=Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0
Version=1.0.0
[Variables]
; Variables declared here can be used later on between two # characters (e.g. #MyVariable#).
fontName=Trebuchet MS
textSize=9
colorBar=235,170,0,255
colorText=255,255,255,205
disk1=C:
disk2=D:
disk3=E:
disk4=F:
; ----------------------------------
; MEASURES return some kind of value
; ----------------------------------
[measureTotalDisk1]
; This measure returns the total disk space
Measure=FreeDiskSpace
Drive=#disk1#
Total=1
UpdateDivider=120
[measureUsedDisk1]
; Returns inverted value of free disk space (i.e. used disk space)
Measure=FreeDiskSpace
Drive=#disk1#
InvertMeasure=0
UpdateDivider=120
[measureTotalDisk2]
Measure=FreeDiskSpace
Drive=#disk2#
Total=1
UpdateDivider=120
[measureUsedDisk2]
Measure=FreeDiskSpace
Drive=#disk2#
InvertMeasure=0
UpdateDivider=120
[measureTotalDisk3]
Measure=FreeDiskSpace
Drive=#disk3#
Total=1
UpdateDivider=120
[measureUsedDisk3]
Measure=FreeDiskSpace
Drive=#disk3#
InvertMeasure=0
UpdateDivider=120
[measureTotalDisk4]
Measure=FreeDiskSpace
Drive=#disk4#
Total=1
UpdateDivider=120
[measureUsedDisk4]
Measure=FreeDiskSpace
Drive=#disk4#
InvertMeasure=0
UpdateDivider=120
; ----------------------------------
; STYLES are used to "centralize" options
; ----------------------------------
[styleTitle]
StringAlign=CENTER
StringCase=UPPER
StringStyle=BOLD
StringEffect=SHADOW
FontEffectColor=0,0,0,50
FontColor=#colorText#
FontFace=#fontName#
FontSize=12
AntiAlias=1
ClipString=1
[styleLeftText]
StringAlign=LEFT
; Meters using styleLeftText will be left-aligned.
StringCase=NONE
StringStyle=BOLD
StringEffect=SHADOW
FontEffectColor=0,0,0,20
FontColor=#colorText#
FontFace=#fontName#
FontSize=#textSize#
AntiAlias=1
ClipString=1
[styleRightText]
StringAlign=RIGHT
StringCase=NONE
StringStyle=BOLD
StringEffect=SHADOW
FontEffectColor=0,0,0,20
FontColor=#colorText#
FontFace=#fontName#
FontSize=#textSize#
AntiAlias=1
ClipString=1
[styleBar]
BarColor=#colorBar#
BarOrientation=HORIZONTAL
SolidColor=255,255,255,30
; ----------------------------------
; METERS display images, text, bars, etc.
; ----------------------------------
[meterTitle]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=styleTitle
; Using MeterStyle=styleTitle will basically "copy" the
; contents of the [styleTitle] section here during runtime.
X=100
Y=12
W=190
H=18
Text="Disk"
; Even though the text is set to Disk, Rainmeter will display
; it as DISK, because styleTitle contains StringCase=UPPER.
[meterLabelDisk1]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=styleLeftText
X=10
Y=40
W=190
H=14
Text="#disk1#\"
[meterValueDisk1]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=styleRightText
MeasureName=measureUsedDisk1
MeasureName2=measureTotalDisk1
X=200
Y=0r
; r stands for relative. In this case, the Y postition of meterValueCPU is 0 pixels
; below the Y value of the previous meter (i.e it's the same as in meterLabelCPU).
W=190
H=14
Text="%1B of %2B free"
; %1 stands for the value of MeasureName (measureUsedDisk1 in this case).
; %2 stands for the value of MeasureName2.
NumOfDecimals=1
AutoScale=1
; Because disk measures return the free/used space in bytes, we must use AutoScale=1 to
; automatically scale the value into a more readable figure.
LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute ["#disk1#\"]
; Open #disk1# on click
[meterBarDisk1]
Meter=BAR
MeterStyle=styleBar
MeasureName=measureUsedDisk1
X=10
Y=52
W=190
H=2
[meterLabelDisk2]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=styleLeftText
X=10
Y=60
W=190
H=14
Text="#disk2#\"
LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute ["#disk2#\"]
[meterValueDisk2]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=styleRightText
MeasureName=measureUsedDisk2
MeasureName2=measureTotalDisk2
X=200
Y=0r
W=190
H=14
Text="%1B of %2B free"
NumOfDecimals=1
AutoScale=1
[meterBarDisk2]
Meter=BAR
MeterStyle=styleBar
MeasureName=measureUsedDisk2
X=10
Y=72
W=190
H=2
[meterLabelDisk3]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=styleLeftText
X=10
Y=80
W=190
H=14
Text="#disk3#\"
LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute ["#disk3#\"]
[meterValueDisk3]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=styleRightText
MeasureName=measureUsedDisk3
MeasureName2=measureTotalDisk3
X=200
Y=0r
W=190
H=14
Text="%1B of %2B free"
NumOfDecimals=1
AutoScale=1
[meterBarDisk3]
Meter=BAR
MeterStyle=styleBar
MeasureName=measureUsedDisk3
X=10
Y=92
W=190
H=2
[meterLabelDisk4]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=styleLeftText
X=10
Y=100
W=190
H=14
Text="#disk4#\"
LeftMouseUpAction=!Execute ["#disk4#\"]
[meterValueDisk4]
Meter=STRING
MeterStyle=styleRightText
MeasureName=measureUsedDisk4
MeasureName2=measureTotalDisk4
X=200
Y=0r
W=190
H=14
Text="%1B of %2B free"
NumOfDecimals=1
AutoScale=1
[meterBarDisk4]
Meter=BAR
MeterStyle=styleBar
MeasureName=measureUsedDisk4
X=10
Y=112
W=190
H=2