Powershell Rainmeter

A simple skin / plugin pair that adds a skin-able Powershell window onto the desktop, using rainmeter.

Install

To use all the dependencies of this:

• Download Rainmeter
• Download Ubuntu Mono
• Download Monoid
• Download AutoHotKey

To install the skin itself:

• Move plugin/Powershell.dll into your rainmeter plugin directory (%APPDATA%/Roaming/Rainmeter/Plugins/ for instance)
• Move skin/main.ini and reclick.ahk into a new plugin folder (Documents/Rainmeter/Skins/Powershell/ for instance)
• restart rainmeter
• edit reclick.ahk to click at the input box. This will depend on your positioning, size, and resolution.

To Customize

Most of the visual aspects of the skin are controlled by variables:

[Variables]
BackgroundColor=0C1620
InputBackgroundColor=0C1620
FontColor=F8F2FF
FontFace="Ubuntu Mono"
FontSize=10
PromptFace="Monoid"
Width=630
Height=1020

The elements to look at are:

• [Background] is the background panel.
• [OutputText] is the console output.
• [MeterSearchLabel] is the > prompt.
• [MeasureSearchInput] is the input box for console input.