How to download illustro skin

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Quick links. Logout Register. Initially, Rainmeter is pre-loaded with illustro. Click the arrow on the left side to drill down into skin packages. Some packages contain more than one skin. These are refereed to as suites.

Mix and match any skin you like on your desktop by loading and unloading. The first is via an. This a file is created via the Rainmeter software and is the easiest way to install a skin. But at the core of every skin is a single. Named SkinName. Because a skin may have any number of variants , skins are typically identified not by their file name, but by the folder where they are located. This is known as the skin's config name. To quickly find out a skin's config name, just check the context menu—the first item is the config name.

Each skin also has a root config folder. This refers to the one folder that contains all of the skins belonging to a "suite," such as illustro. When the skins in a suite are organized together in this way, they can be exported to a package , and then installed on another system, as a single collection. They can also share fonts, images and other resources in a way that separate skins cannot. For a simple skin that is not part of such a "suite," the config and root config are the same.

Here's a quick reference chart to help you remember the relationship between skins, configs, variants and roots, using illustro as an example:. Root config folders are all organized in Rainmeter's main Skins folder :.

The illustro "Clock" skin in the Skins folder. Remember that skins are identified by their config name, e. Until now, you have been working with the pre-made illustro skins that come with Rainmeter. Now, you're going to create a new skin from scratch.

Creating a new skin is quite easy. In Manage , click the "Create new skin" button. This will create a new config folder in the skins list, offering a default starting name of "NewSkin". Name this folder "MyFirstSkin" and hit enter.

This will do several things. It will create a new root config folder with the name "MyFirstSkin".