Help: Rainmeter Skins • Re: Setting windows accent color

Hi! first post here after ages of lurking and building my skin in silence

(Might make a post showcasing it later)

I was wondering if there's a way for me to change window's accent color with rainmeter, maybe running a command of sorts , I've tried searching for commands I can use to change it but most answers confuse me a little

Hopefully this isn't too dumb a question haha, I tried searching here for anyone who's asked before but nothing came up with the terms I used

Thank you in advance!

It seems that one can do this be changing some keys / values in the registry, google that a bit and do some testing first from regedit.exe to see if, where and how it works (don't forget to backup the relevant parts of the registry beforehand, via exporting them to .reg files, from the same executable - if you want to restore that backup, double click on the saved .reg files).

Once you identify and test a working method from regedit.exe, you can also test the command to modify the registry accordingly. Generally, this can be done from cmd.exe:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-edit-registry-using-command-prompt-windows-10
or PowerShell, see Editing the Registry with PowerShell here:
https://blog.netwrix.com/2018/09/11/how-to-get-edit-create-and-delete-registry-keys-with-powershell/

To implement it in Rainmeter should be easy: run the same command you previously tested, from a RunCommand measure (there's some sample code at the bottom of the page, if you want to skip reading):
https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/plugins/runcommand/

Or, even easier and probably safer, if you're ok with not doing this in the background, you can just open the relevant Personalization window from the skin and do it just like you'd do it from Windows itself:
https://docs.rainmeter.net/tips/launching-windows-special-folders/

Let us know how that goes!

Statistics: Posted by Yincognito — Today, 6:37 am

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