Download Rainmeter 2.2 r1037 beta
The development of version 2.2 of Rainmeter is in full swing and release 1037 has now been released. Rainmeter is a program that allows you to customize the desktop of a Windows PC. For example, it is possible to display all kinds of information as a kind of overlay, such as free space on the hard disk, network activity and whether there is new e-mail. Functional applets can also be used to, for example, make notes or send tweets. New in version 2.2 is, among other things, that the application can be used in different languages. What exactly has changed in this release can be found below.
What’s new in Rainmeter 2.2
Rainmeter 2.2 is fully backwards compatible with skins written for any version of Rainmeter, and you need only install it on top of your existing installation. No need to uninstall 2.1 or worry about overwriting changes you have made.
Changes in Rainmeter 2.2 r1037 beta
- Changed the behavior of AlwaysOnTop / Z-Position settings.
Stay Topmost, Topmost, Normal and On Desktop now all will remain visible when Windows “Show Desktop” or “Win-M” is used. The behavior otherwise remains the same. This change can be globally overriden (for all skins) by setting NormalStayDesktop=0 in the [Rainmeter] section of Rainmeter.ini. This should eliminate the need to set skins to “On Desktop” in most cases, other than pure “background” skins that you want to remain behind other skins at all times. - CoreTemp.dll: Fixed that Scale, NumOfDecimals, etc. didn’t work with MeasureName=SomeCoreTempMeasure.
This change may slightly change the display of results (eg CpuSpeed will now be displayed without decimals by default, while it always showed two decimals previously) - Fixed a Meter=Button problem with buttons not working in some cases, caused by an earlier update.
- Fixed a problem where the new “position” was not being saved after a refresh when !ZPos was used.
- Fixed an infinite loop / hang when Rainmeter.exe is called with a bang containing square brackets (eg Rainmeter.exe !Bang “[Text]”)
- Made some log messages more consistent.
- NowPlaying.dll:
- Fixed that album name and cover were not always displayed with Winamp.
- Shuffle and repeat state is now rechecked on track change with iTunes.
- Improved performance when reading file tags/cover,
- Updated iTunes SDK files.
- Fixed that the Measures panel in the About dialog sometimes displayed incorrect values.
Version number | 2.2 r1037 beta |
Release status | beta |
Operating systems | Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 |
Website | rain gauge |
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File size |
1.94MB |
License type | Freeware |