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hello-123456 In reply to ??? [2011-06-02 20:15:33 +0000 UTC]

The second option is the case here, that's not a skin file. standalonestack.ini is the settings file for standalonestack2, which is used for the stacks. It unfortunately is a .ini file and as such Rainmeter recognises it as a skin file.

To add widgets you must right click on the bar, and press edit skin, than at the top you see a section with apps and widgets, remove the ; in front of the widget you want to activate, save the file trough File -> Save, and than right click the bar again and press refresh skin, you will now see the apps/widgets are added at the bottom of the bar.
In order to sort them to your liking, edit the file again, but this time move the lines in the order you want too, any order is possible, as long as App1 remains active.

In order to configure the apps (and some widgets) to your liking, go to the bottom right cornor of the bar, a gear icon will pop up, right click it for more information, left click it to open the config tool.
In order to configure a folder for stacks, simply rightclick the stack icon and the standalonestack2 config window will pop up.

It really isn't that hard, it just takes some time to get used to it. But please read the included instructions, they contain most of the information necesarry to use the skin. If you still have any questions left after that, feel free to ask

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Habahabax In reply to ??? [2011-06-01 13:24:57 +0000 UTC]

solved... you did a great job..

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sharkurban In reply to ??? [2011-05-22 11:10:31 +0000 UTC]

It's reaaly awesome good work

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hello-123456 In reply to sharkurban [2011-05-22 13:46:35 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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DiegHoe In reply to ??? [2011-05-18 15:36:22 +0000 UTC]

Hey, Mind telling me the dock theme? Id surely like that

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hello-123456 In reply to DiegHoe [2011-05-22 13:46:28 +0000 UTC]

Uhm I'm not using a dock, just the Adagio Visual Style for Windows 7 and Centered the icons, thats all

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JovanSky In reply to ??? [2011-05-14 14:23:50 +0000 UTC]

how did you put icons in the middle of taskbar????
thx

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hello-123456 In reply to JovanSky [2011-05-14 20:39:54 +0000 UTC]

Explained all you need earlier here: [link] including a link to instructions on how to center the icons on the bar

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hello-123456 In reply to zkarel [2011-05-12 09:49:06 +0000 UTC]

You mean the taskbar, yes, that's Adagio, altough the colors were finetuned in Photoshop to match in the preview.

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christianhiguera In reply to ??? [2011-05-06 22:19:49 +0000 UTC]

great job! but how do i add some extra stacks to the unity bar?

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hello-123456 In reply to christianhiguera [2011-05-07 07:33:05 +0000 UTC]

That actually is pretty hard, but I'm planning on updating this anyway, adding Aeroblur too and expanding to 5 stacks, I don't know if you need even more, if so, please let me know how much.

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christianhiguera In reply to hello-123456 [2011-05-07 08:38:59 +0000 UTC]

first of all thanks for the attention. i don´t want to sound too demanding but actually i need 6 stacks, and as suggestion i would like to have some kind of marging hotspot or something that allows the use of the unity bar above all the open windows.

thanks, you did a spectacular job , i´ll desperate wait for the next release....

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hello-123456 In reply to christianhiguera [2011-05-07 10:39:37 +0000 UTC]

You mean an auto-hide function, hmm, I did some testing, and I got a functional beta, only it now still responds to the background of the bar, so in case you have the Large Media or Shutdown Widget and you want to press a button other than the one being on the bar it will hide again... Not sure if I can actually fix that...

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Driver2000 In reply to ??? [2011-05-06 18:48:36 +0000 UTC]

Great! is really wonderful

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hello-123456 In reply to Driver2000 [2011-05-07 07:33:11 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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hello-123456 In reply to chiefro [2011-05-04 08:43:34 +0000 UTC]

That's right, that's not supported by the skin.
However it is possible but it would require you to make quite a few changes to the code. Though I will explain the steps for you since you really like the skin.
Go to Unity\Apps folder, open all the .inc files (that are in use, but better to open all).
You will see the following parts:

[MeterIcon#]
Y=38r
H=48
W=48
[App#_Text]
Y=16r

All those values have to be changed for all the apps in order for the images to size up and the positions to be correct after that.
Each time the Icon is placed relative to the height of the previous icon Text.
So that would be:

App1Icon
   |_App1_Text
       |_App2Icon
           |_App2_Text
               |_App3Icon
                   |_App3_Text
And so on, when App2 for example is disabled App3 would move up.
Same story goes for the Widgets, they would require editing too, depending on the widget it can be a little bit harder or downright complicated.
Why it's this complicated you might wonder, well there was simply no other way to have icons to be easily disabled and them to move up by itself after that.

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chiefro In reply to hello-123456 [2011-05-04 18:49:46 +0000 UTC]

seems strenuous but i might take it on one day.

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chiefro In reply to ??? [2011-05-04 03:30:24 +0000 UTC]

Maybe im just dumb or something is messed up but on the screen shots it doesn't show firefox as being first... however on mine i have no ability to move or disable firefox ... if i disable the first app they all disappear ... but to no avail i can't figure out the firefox. I don't really use firefox either so it isn't helpful to me. i like chrome better, sorry for those that might be offended by that last comment

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hello-123456 In reply to chiefro [2011-05-04 08:29:38 +0000 UTC]

Also, you may NEVER disable the first application, it contains an X and Y value, and the rest of the icons is positioned relative to it, when you disable it it will remain relative positioning the other apps, but than they will be placed relative to the background, thus making them disappear behind your start button. In case you have a transparent taskbar you might just see it. So please leave it on and change the application instead using the config tool.
To launch the config tool go to the bottom right of the background and click the gear icon that comes up.

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chiefro In reply to chiefro [2011-05-04 03:32:31 +0000 UTC]

ok i can't delete this comment. but i figured it out thanks anyway.

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chiefro In reply to ??? [2011-05-04 03:06:40 +0000 UTC]

Wow, I'm fairly new at this and i was trying to figure out why mine was all messed up and i invested about 2.5 hours looking over every file and then reading all the comments. Then it occurred to me that i was using the update. :S FAIL ... I have it working now... So im going to have a look at what is happening

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hello-123456 In reply to chiefro [2011-05-04 08:27:14 +0000 UTC]

Alright glad you got it working in the end

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hello-123456 In reply to gcbancod [2011-05-03 07:48:14 +0000 UTC]

That depends, if you reload a skin or multiple skins it lets the original version in the memory and on top of that load the new one, so if you have refreshed allot of skins simply just close Rainmeter and start it again, it will than use less memory because it doesn't have the old versions in the memory anymore.

If you didn't refresh any skins, the only way is to reduce the amount of skins you use.

Either way the amount of memory that can be saved with it is next to nothing. But Rainmeter doesn't use that much at all, around 15 Mb, when I was running the Windows Sidebar it was taking up 40 Mb and I only had 2 simple gadgets loaded. Rainmeter is now giving me the same information and more and uses only a fraction of what Windows Sidebar needed for it.

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swamp-lily In reply to ??? [2011-05-02 17:56:12 +0000 UTC]

Thanks I already did that

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hello-123456 In reply to swamp-lily [2011-05-03 07:44:50 +0000 UTC]

Alright

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swamp-lily In reply to ??? [2011-05-01 10:16:08 +0000 UTC]

thank u so much for this nice work!! but im wondering how can I combine it with the taskbar????

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hello-123456 In reply to swamp-lily [2011-05-01 15:43:41 +0000 UTC]

Somebody else asked me the same question, have a look here: [link]

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santifelipebarreto In reply to ??? [2011-04-25 06:29:05 +0000 UTC]

how can i change my start bar to the one wich appears in the pictrue?

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hello-123456 In reply to santifelipebarreto [2011-05-01 15:43:04 +0000 UTC]

This is all you need:
Visual style: [link]
Orb: [link]
Orb Changer: [link]
Wallpaper: [link]
Flurry Icons: [link]
Center the icons: [link]
Please note that I did adjust the colors of the bar in Photoshop.

Hope that helps you

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sander9847 In reply to hello-123456 [2012-06-28 17:26:36 +0000 UTC]

Could you please post that bar you changed the colors of in photoshop, i really want the same desktop you have. Looks so damn awesome

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hello-123456 In reply to sander9847 [2012-08-05 09:29:49 +0000 UTC]

Sorry, that would require editing the original skin files and I have no clue on how to do that...

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santifelipebarreto In reply to hello-123456 [2011-05-02 21:33:17 +0000 UTC]

thank youu helps me alot ;D

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Ppyon In reply to ??? [2011-04-24 05:45:26 +0000 UTC]

o:

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poypopz In reply to ??? [2011-04-22 18:37:39 +0000 UTC]

can we put on additional stacks? it would be very much appreciated if you can assist me if it can be done. thank you very much!

btw, your skin is AWESOME!

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hello-123456 In reply to poypopz [2011-04-22 20:22:43 +0000 UTC]

Possible, but a little tough to do, since I'm planning on updating this to 3.1 (adding Aeroblur), I'll perhaps add some extra stacks too. Any idea on the amount you want, personally I thought 3 would be enough, but perhaps I should make like 5?

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poypopz In reply to hello-123456 [2011-04-22 21:02:47 +0000 UTC]

i was addicted to stacks when i was using OSX, the reason why i would want to put more stacks. hehe i just switched to windows recently 5 would do, i think

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hello-123456 In reply to poypopz [2011-04-22 22:50:15 +0000 UTC]

You can use StandAloneStack 2 also seperated from Unity if you'd like (for example for use in docks). You can find it here: [link]

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poypopz In reply to hello-123456 [2011-04-23 09:47:27 +0000 UTC]

thanks! i am using it already. hehe sweet

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hello-123456 In reply to Jamilb [2011-04-19 05:57:16 +0000 UTC]

Read the first few comments, yes, it will, it runs on every system which is supported by Rainmeter.

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Jamilb In reply to hello-123456 [2011-04-19 19:00:06 +0000 UTC]

OK, sorry I didn't look at them. Wasn't paying attention. Thanks!

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SnoWbull In reply to ??? [2011-04-17 14:19:33 +0000 UTC]

Why WiFi doesn't work?

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hello-123456 In reply to SnoWbull [2011-04-17 14:37:09 +0000 UTC]

Uhm what exactly doesn't work? I can't test that one myself since I don't use WiFi, col-darby tested it and assured me it was functioning...?

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SnoWbull In reply to hello-123456 [2011-04-17 15:09:31 +0000 UTC]

I mean the widget doesn't show at all.

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hello-123456 In reply to SnoWbull [2011-04-17 16:38:19 +0000 UTC]

Hmm, I tried this and I have the same problem, even tough I don't have WiFi at least something should come up... I'll try to contact col-darby about it to test it.

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a1g12 In reply to ??? [2011-04-17 05:01:48 +0000 UTC]

its a very nice skin..

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