However, all skins are made from the same building blocks: measures, which gather information from your computer, a website, a text file, or some other source and meters, which create visual elements in the skin's window, such as frames, borders, backgrounds, images, text, charts, or buttons. Every skin works differently, depending on the choices of that skin's individual author. Some skins even come bundled in large 'suites' and include their own tools for customizing their form and appearance, within or alongside Rainmeter's basic user interface.
Others are more complex, like miniature applications themselves. Some skins are very simple, single-purpose tools, like Windows desktop gadgets, or 'widgets' on an Android device.
Rainmeter can run any number of skins at one time, even from different sources.Ī skin can be many things. Each skin is a separate window, and can be moved around on the desktop by clicking and dragging.
