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This UI skin helps adding auxiliary Rainmeter bangs for the appropriate transition code whenever used. Intended for changing wallpapers only.

Applying Changes

This UI saves all changes as they are being made. However, a full Rainmeter refresh is required to apply it to the skins that use this information.

Fields

Augmented Code

The selected code tab will define which List you will apply your auxiliary Rainmeter bangs to.

Rainmeter Bang(s)

Clicking the large box will open up an input box where you can write in your auxiliary code. The syntax is the exact same as Rainmeter bangs, and you can concatenate as many of them as you wish side by side. This feature's primary purpose is to switch wallpapers with the suite change, and provides documentation links to the standard Windows OS wallpaper change and a WallpaperEngine wallpaper change.

Changing the Windows OS Wallpaper

If you are using Windows' standard wallpaper, it is very straightforward - you can use !SetWallpaper as natively provided by Rainmeter, as shown below:

[!SetWallpaper "C:\PathToImage\newwallpaper.png" Center]

Changing a WallpaperEngine Wallpaper

A working example of the Interactive Arona Wallpaper assuming your Steam installation directories are untouched from what the default suggested, the below example code should work for you:

["C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\wallpaper_engine\wallpaper64.exe" "-control" "openWallpaper" "-file" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\431960\2959252463\project.json"]

This is a very surface level Wallpaper switch. If you wish to dabble with playlists, sending various .json configurations for the same wallpaper over different layout changes or more, it is best to consult the official documentation as linked in the skin. Everything they specify refers to the Windows Command Line (CLI), but it can be written directly as a Rainmeter bang, the only difference being that you need to enclose each token in quotations, and then the whole command in brackets.

Documentation Shortcuts

These two buttons open up the associated webpages which are official documentations for how to change wallpapers.