Download Rainmeter 2.5 r1706 beta

A new version from the 2.5 development arm of Rainmeter has been released. This program can display all kinds of information on the desktop in real time, such as free hard disk space, network activity and whether there is new email. Functional applets can also be used to, for example, make notes or send tweets. Version 2.5 can handle older themes and skins, so the new version can be installed without any worries.

Revision 1706

• Mouse Actions: Mouse scrolling on skins and meters now works without having to click to “focus” the skin window.
• Manage: Now allows negative X/Y coordinates.
• WebParser: Changed the Debug=2 option to write WebParserDump.txt to the current skin folder. This is due to Windows 8 not allowing applications to write to the root directory of the system drive.

Revision 1696

• Added new Mouse Actions to support the scroll wheel. Full details in Change Announcements.
• Added new OnFocusAction / OnUnFocusAction options to the [Rainmeter] section of the skin, to execute actions when a skin gains or loses focus (by clicking it) in Windows.
• Added support for two extra mouse buttons in Mouse Actions.
• Added settings for Editor and Show notification area icon to Settings tab of the manage window.
• Fixed an issue with a memory leak in Skin Packager.