If you load the options skin and go to format you can change the font size. I haven't figured out how to make the frames/boxes bigger, but I bumped up each font size to 11, 10, 9, 8 and everything is readable on my screen now.
Too lazy to find an easier way but if remember properly you load up enigma, righclick on one of the meters, go to edit skin and look for this bit of code:
mess around with W and H until its as big as you want
e: you can also change the color and transparency of it through this!
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ArtreusI'm a wizardAnd that looks fucked upRegistered Userregular
I changed the font size to something like 20 and it just broke everything. I will try this though, hopefully it works?! Simplemedia is my favorite so far for date/time, even though I have it sitting right there in my taskbar already, and I never see my desktop
Too lazy to find an easier way but if remember properly you load up enigma, righclick on one of the meters, go to edit skin and look for this bit of code:
mess around with W and H until its as big as you want
e: you can also change the color and transparency of it through this!
Couldn't find that in either of the Enigma pieces I use.
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ArtreusI'm a wizardAnd that looks fucked upRegistered Userregular
This is my desktop as it stands.
I think I might be happy with this calendar, but will probably look around for another one, I would like a bigger RSS feed though. I can't bump the text up any bigger without text being cut off and thus unreadable.
Okaaay I was apparently using REALLY REALLY OLD Enigma, I messed around a bit and you can apparently change the size of the sidebar (which should fix the problem of fonts being too big) by going to options -> layout options and messing around. If the sidebar gets too big you can get rid of it through options too
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ArtreusI'm a wizardAnd that looks fucked upRegistered Userregular
I JUST went over this.
Kind of.
But yeah I never really view my desktop.
It just looks pretty.
Also my keyboard displays time and date pretty effectively
I reaallly doubt it does. There is probably one out there though.
edit: also the controls on that music player do not work. Fortunately win7 is awesome and I can just control it from the taskbar anyway
You have to edit it with the player name. Which player do you use? There's a list of player codes someplace. Right click the player and click edit skin and look for playername= or something similar.
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#pipeCocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered Userregular
i never understood having a big rainmeter calender and time and date and all that when you still have the taskbar down there.
redundancy is evil
cause it's pretty.
yeah so turn off the taskbar and use a launcher so it's even prettier and you don't have the same thing on your screen like four times!
duh guys
duh
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Goose!That's me, honeyShow me the way home, honeyRegistered Userregular
My ObjectDock is pretty awesome because:
I turned my Start Menu button into an Empire logo with a red to black gradient that I made myself
I turned my Chrome icon into R2D2
I turned my My Computer icon into C3PO's head
and I turned my Recycle Bin into the Death Star (when empty) and the Death Star firing (when full).
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#pipeCocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered Userregular
I really wish the rainmeter skin config had colour editing options
A skinner who puts SO MANY easy to configure color options in her work is bedroompop
the downside being that she's a serious form over function designer
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Goose!That's me, honeyShow me the way home, honeyRegistered Userregular
I want to put more things on my desktop. Like a twitter thing. Haven't found one of those yet. Also wanna find a way to control pandora via the music player.
I have 3 readers, my facebook notifications, date time, e-mail, system, a notes thing, weather, now playing, and a volume control. I also kept trying to get website launcher things to work (and edit them to sites I wanted) but could not figure that out.
there used to be a cool website called www.yayfordesktops.com that was passed around by word of mouth and everyone used the same username but it appears to be gone
@Jaunty told me about it after I asked him about a rad desktop he posted where the image was a photo recreation of the apartment from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
@Keith That's why I don't understand people wearing physical watches.
see that's different for me since a watch can be a pretty big accessory to your outfit
plus it's not like a computer or phone screen where there is two clocks right next to one another right in your face.
you don't get that kind of redundancy with a watch and a phone unless like... whenever you check the time you put your phone and your watch next to one another
@Keith That's why I don't understand people wearing physical watches.
see that's different for me since a watch can be a pretty big accessory to your outfit
plus it's not like a computer or phone screen where there is two clocks right next to one another right in your face.
you don't get that kind of redundancy with a watch and a phone unless like... whenever you check the time you put your phone and your watch next to one another
I carry a pocket watch and my phone. People ask why I carry the pocket watch when I have to pull it out and I already carry my phone everywhere with me.
Because it's rad as hell, motherfucker, that's why
As a professional whatshasyou, I've been rocking my tailored suits and shirts for years now without ever wearing a watch. I dislike the way they feel. No one has ever implied I was unprofessional for doing so.
Anyway, yeah, I totally get it as a fashion accessory. Watches are acceptable men's jewellery.
Except for that, though, it's a single-use gadget that is immediately redundant when you have a phone that is a clock, a calendar, an organiser and a million other things in one gadget.
S'just how I feel, man.
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ArtreusI'm a wizardAnd that looks fucked upRegistered Userregular
It is totally acceptable for businessmen to use smart phones for lots of things these days
Yup. I tried it out on a lark once and never looked back. It's just so much nicer.
I mean, 99% of what I do on my computer is reading, writing, doing layout design and web browsing, and for all of those, portrait style gives me more realestate and less scrolling.
The only time I wish I had a horizontal screen is when I want to watch a DVD or a YouTube video in fullscreen. Otherwise it's golden - I can even float VLC at the bottom of my screen and not have it get in the way of my work.
I keep one of mine portraited at work, the other horizontal, much nicer for reading any kind of tech documentation, pdfs, etc.
Also using the rainmeter skin to make it look like a magazine cover?
Posts
edit: okay a lot of the rainmeter stuff is way too small on a 1920x1080 monitor. Boo.
I love simple media
any suggestions for a similar calendar skin?
Fortytwo's blog about fatherhood, life, and everything.
If you load the options skin and go to format you can change the font size. I haven't figured out how to make the frames/boxes bigger, but I bumped up each font size to 11, 10, 9, 8 and everything is readable on my screen now.
mess around with W and H until its as big as you want
e: you can also change the color and transparency of it through this!
Couldn't find that in either of the Enigma pieces I use.
I think I might be happy with this calendar, but will probably look around for another one, I would like a bigger RSS feed though. I can't bump the text up any bigger without text being cut off and thus unreadable.
edit: also the controls on that music player do not work. Fortunately win7 is awesome and I can just control it from the taskbar anyway
redundancy is evil
Kind of.
But yeah I never really view my desktop.
It just looks pretty.
Also my keyboard displays time and date pretty effectively
You have to edit it with the player name. Which player do you use? There's a list of player codes someplace. Right click the player and click edit skin and look for playername= or something similar.
cause it's pretty.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
yeah so turn off the taskbar and use a launcher so it's even prettier and you don't have the same thing on your screen like four times!
duh guys
duh
I turned my Start Menu button into an Empire logo with a red to black gradient that I made myself
I turned my Chrome icon into R2D2
I turned my My Computer icon into C3PO's head
and I turned my Recycle Bin into the Death Star (when empty) and the Death Star firing (when full).
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Also goose, enigma has an Options .ini thing that is super useful and easy to change everything.
It just is not worth the effort to get working for me. I do not need it at all.
I do not mind having dates and times in multiple places
I don't now if I ever answered this, but yeah it is. It is from the deadendthrills site I linked in that post
the downside being that she's a serious form over function designer
I have 3 readers, my facebook notifications, date time, e-mail, system, a notes thing, weather, now playing, and a volume control. I also kept trying to get website launcher things to work (and edit them to sites I wanted) but could not figure that out.
@Jaunty told me about it after I asked him about a rad desktop he posted where the image was a photo recreation of the apartment from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
the photo is by Jeff Walls
Yeah that's why I don't understand clock widgets on phones, either
http://i.imgur.com/NZJvN.gif
see that's different for me since a watch can be a pretty big accessory to your outfit
plus it's not like a computer or phone screen where there is two clocks right next to one another right in your face.
you don't get that kind of redundancy with a watch and a phone unless like... whenever you check the time you put your phone and your watch next to one another
I carry a pocket watch and my phone. People ask why I carry the pocket watch when I have to pull it out and I already carry my phone everywhere with me.
Because it's rad as hell, motherfucker, that's why
Anyway, yeah, I totally get it as a fashion accessory. Watches are acceptable men's jewellery.
Except for that, though, it's a single-use gadget that is immediately redundant when you have a phone that is a clock, a calendar, an organiser and a million other things in one gadget.
S'just how I feel, man.
I keep one of mine portraited at work, the other horizontal, much nicer for reading any kind of tech documentation, pdfs, etc.
Also using the rainmeter skin to make it look like a magazine cover?
huh, I have a random ass collection of desktop icons
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Also do that thing where you get rid of the arrow icon on shortcuts