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TaskbarX		rainmeter
	Project
130	Mentions	13
7,616	Stars	4,329
-	Growth	2.0%
1.1	Activity	7.6
3 months ago	Latest Commit	9 days ago
Visual Basic .NET	Language	C
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

TaskbarX

Posts with mentions or reviews of TaskbarX. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-28.

New Wallpaper
1 project | /r/desktops | 22 Jul 2023

You can download TaskbarX here (For windows tray)
sword portal thing:)
1 project | /r/Minecraft | 28 May 2023

You might wanna check out TaskbarX for your Taskbar
Explorer crashing on startup. Similar issues on desktop as well
1 project | /r/Windows11 | 15 May 2023

there is an issues on git related to that maybe it can help you, https://github.com/ChrisAnd1998/TaskbarX/issues/442
Any working alternative for TranslucentTB?
2 projects | /r/Windows11 | 28 Feb 2023

If you want to know more alternatives, I recommend you to take a look at TaskbarX and TaskbarXI.
Is there a way to make my taskbar look like this?
1 project | /r/Windows10 | 10 Feb 2023

Yeah, TaskbarX is really nice. Works with Windows 10 and 11.
My current desktop
2 projects | /r/desktops | 10 Dec 2022

Taskbarx rainmeter skin(used for center dock icons):https://github.com/ChrisAnd1998/TaskbarX
How do i remove these empty spaces? i'm using taskbarX on Win10
1 project | /r/desktops | 10 Dec 2022

Issue
Windows 11 runs on fewer than 1 in 6 PCs
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Nov 2022

You can probably do this with Windows 10 using TaskBarX[0].
[0] https://github.com/ChrisAnd1998/TaskbarX
"Musical Anomaly." My first Rainmeter Suite! Critiques are welcome.
7 projects | /r/Rainmeter | 27 Sep 2022

Oh! I can't forget about TaskbarX!
Ultra minimal rainmeter suite
1 project | /r/Rainmeter | 13 Sep 2022

Taskbar: https://github.com/ChrisAnd1998/TaskbarX

rainmeter

Posts with mentions or reviews of rainmeter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-09.

Persona 3 FEMC Rainmeter Wallpaper
1 project | /r/PERSoNA | 2 Jul 2023

I decided, to make it easy, I'd add all the files needed into a compact Google Drive for you to download everything needed ready made. Before you download what is inside the google drive, you need rainmeter to download this set.
BNA-themed desktop
1 project | /r/BrandNewAnimal | 3 Mar 2023
Rainmeter: Desktop Customization Tool for Windows
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Nov 2022
Rainmeter site download
3 projects | /r/Rainmeter | 9 Jan 2022

No issues here either opening rainmeter.net. As u/SaberAkiyama mentioned, the the GitHub site.
Heavily customised Windows 10
1 project | /r/desktops | 27 Dec 2021

Use Rainmeter "Mond" skin (Mond Skin; Rainmeter Site), just look up some rainmeter tutorials on youtube, it can get pretty confusing
Coinminer/virus issue clarification
1 project | /r/Rainmeter | 6 Nov 2021

To be perfectly clear: this is a false positive and the likely reason has been clarified here. If that explanation isn't enough you though, than I would also like to remind everyone that rainmeter is open source, so anyone and everyone is free to scrutinize the code as much as they wish.
Thoughts? (yes i like to keep my taskbar at the top)
1 project | /r/Windows10 | 12 Oct 2021

rainmeter.net
Guide to Macdows11 (..or whatever you would call it)
4 projects | /r/Windows11 | 28 Aug 2021

For the macOS style menubar 1. Get Rainmeter Beta Latest here ( Download (github.com) ) 2. Install it like you would... 3. Get Droptop Four from here ( Home | droptop four (wixsite.com) //highly recommend getting supporter version for extra customisation) 4. Extract the zip and install it by clicking on the .rmskin filetype (they also have a Server) 5. Customise it as you want :)
I would love the ability to pin widgets to the desktop - Here's my concept.
1 project | /r/Windows11 | 14 Jul 2021

I guess http://rainmeter.net will have to step up their game
[BotW] [OC] Added a bit more to my BOTW setup (thank you u/xeterios for telling me on how to add glow to the text and u/DiDgr8 for the wallpaper)
1 project | /r/zelda | 5 Jul 2021

rainmeter.net and wallpaper engine can be found on steam for somewhere around 4-8 dollars depending where you live

What are some alternatives?

When comparing TaskbarX and rainmeter you can also consider the following projects:

TranslucentTB - A lightweight utility that makes the Windows taskbar translucent/transparent.

RoundedTB - Add margins, rounded corners and segments to your taskbars!

hyperterm - A terminal built on web technologies

CenterTaskbar - Center Windows Taskbar Icons

rimraf - A `rm -rf` util for nodejs

More-Icons-unFold-Rainmeter - 💻 In this repository you will be able to find different icons of the type "unFold" for Rainmeter.

Chocolatey - Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

T-Clock - Highly configurable Windows taskbar clock

Kodi Home Theater Software - Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.

Open-Shell-Menu - Classic Shell Reborn.

JDWS-03 - Jelle Dekkers' Weather Skins # 03