A non-intrusive grayish Rainmeter skin showing system resource usage.
I know Rainmeter for many years now. I love it and always liked playing around with the endless skinning possibilities. "Enigma" is one of my favorite skins and in 2012 I found some excellent skin work by BlaCkOuT1911 and Frosch99 that works well with Enigma. That motivated me to create "Grayhound".
I like less obstrusive skins for metering so I decided to go "gray scale" for all the frame work plus some pastell colors for the values. Using a wide screen monitor, my approach was to only place the meters on the far left and right of the desktop so that I can use my application windows in the center and still have a glimpse on the system usage.
- CPU (7 skins: Overall, 2 cores, 4 cores, 8 cores, 12 cores, 16 cores, 8 cores spectrum, 12 cores spectrum, 16 cores spectrum) (each in 3 sizes)
- CPU Bars (2 skins: 8 cores, 12 cores) (each in 3 sizes)
- Disk (27 skins: 1-4 drives, Drives C-G) (each in 3 sizes)
- Fan Speed (1 skin) (requires installation of HWiNFO) (each in 3 sizes)
- GPU (2 skins) (each in 3 sizes)
- Memory (3 skin: Overall, RAM, SWAP) (each in 3 sizes)
- Music (1 skin in 3 sizes)
- Network (3 skins: In/Out, Incoming, Outgoing) (each in 3 sizes)
- Processes (1 skin: Top 8 processes) (in 3 sizes)
- Recycle Bin (1 skin in 3 sizes)
- Sidebars (3 skins: Left + Right, Left, Right) (each in 3 sizes)
- Temperature (1 skin: CPU, GPU, HD) (requires installation of HWiNFO) (each in 3 sizes)
- Uptime (1 skin in 3 sizes)
For the Fan Speed and Temperature skin you need to install HWiNFO 7.x that delivers the corresponding readings to the Registry where Rainmeter Measures can pick them up. Read more about the setup of HWiNFO and Rainmeter here: https://docs.rainmeter.net/tips/hwinfo/
For the Music Skin you need one of the supported media players that Rainmeter can read from. You can find the supported players listed here.
Kaelri for Enigma
BlaCkOuT1911 for early skin components
Frosch99 for early skin components
PNGBarn for the Rainmeter icon
Enjoy, George Lewe