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5. FAQ
Q. What is Rainmeter?
A. Rainmeter is a desktop customization tool for Microsoft Windows.
It is a free and open source software. Rainmeter on Github
Q. Where is a download link of the skin?
A.
Q. How to install the skin?
A. See Installing the skin
Q. Where is the location of the skin installed?
A. The default location of the skin installed is C:\Users\%UserName%\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\OneTicker.
Q. How many Web feed/Weather/Date and Time/Local text file items can be displayed?
A. There are not any limitation of data source count, ticker items count. But it might require more data update intervals.
Menu > Settings > Data update interval.
Q. How to get Oneticker skin update notifications?
A. You can apend https://github.com/nek7u/OneTicker/releases.atom as a data source
Menu > Settings > Web feed time range might also be useful.
Q. Does OneTicker support an OPML for importing and exporting Web feed lists?
A. No it dosn't. There are no plans to support an OPML in the future.
Q. What is the weather data source?
A. The skin use as a source weather.com.
Q. How to add an Web feed url?
A. See Manage data sources
Q. How to modify the skin settings?
A. You can change general settings by clicking the Menu button. context menus. These settings are saved to the OneTicker\Config.inc file.
- Keyword blocking, Keyword hilighting: Menu > Settings > Edit Config
OneTicker\Config.inc - Apps, Bookmarks, Fonts for menu: Menu > Apps > Edit menu items
OneTicker\@Resources\Languages\Preferences.{Locale Name}.inc - URL of the Web feed, Geographic coordinates for the Weather forecast, Date and Time, Path to local text file: Menu > Sources > Open Sources folder
OneTicker\Sources\{file name}.txt
Q. Can I specify postal code, city name, location id for the weather forecast?
A. No you can't. Only geographic coordinates are available. You can get geographic coordinates from Google Maps. Right-click on the map and copy the geographic coordinates.
Menu > Sources > Open Sources folder, Open the source text file and add a geographic coordinates something like 40.7766,-73.9701 and save file.
Q. What is the Smooth scrolling? Menu > Animations
A.
Q. The ticker doesn't display any data.
A. Shut down the Rainmeter app once and launch the Rainmeter app again. Make sure that Menu > Sources > one or more files are checked. ✔️
Q. It does not show context sub menus.
A. It is different from Windows native context menus. Left-clicking is needed to open sub menus.
Q. Scrolling text is not smooth at all.
A. If Menu > Aminations > Smooth scrolling ✔️ then please consider stop using a high cpu cost skins like an audio visualizer.
Q. Weather settings don't seem to be applied.
A. Changing weather settings requires the skin to be refreshed. Menu > Refresh skin
Q. I can't find voice names in the Menu > Narrator > Voice volume
A. OneTicker is using Speech plugin for Narrator. Voice name list is taken from the registry. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens
You could also add extra voices.
Unlock all Windows 10 TTS voices system - ghacks.net
Q. nircmd.exe does not work on my Windows.
A. If you are using Windows 10 - 32bit version, download a 32bit version of nircmd.exe from the NirCmd (very bottom of the page) and replace the C:\Users\%UserName%\Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\OneTicker\@Resources\Addons\nircmd.exe with new one.