Support
- Opening the Settings panel
- Changing the media player
- Changing colors further
- Changing fonts
- Skin is not updating
- Extending the width of the text
- Foobar2000 and Rainmeter
- Groove Music and Rainmeter
- Hiding Cleartext when nothing is playing
- Making the scrolling mechanism faster
- MusicBee and Rainmeter
- Resizing/scaling Cleartext
- Spotify and Rainmeter
- Stopping the scrolling mechanism
- WebNowPlaying and Cleartext
- Using the built-in update checker with the Update Service
- VLC and Rainmeter
To open the Settings panel, press the settings button above the Now Playing text on Cleartext. You can also right-click on it and select Open Settings panel.
To set the media player, open the Settings panel. Select Player from the sidebar. Click on your media player and you're good to go.
If you're not satisfied with the black and white color themes in the Switch Color option of the Settings panel, you may modify the colors manually.
When you want to change colors for other elements, such as separate colors for the top and bottom text, you can specify a FontColor= property inside the [topText] and [bottomText] meters.
For information on how to input values for the FontColor= property and translucent, opaque, over variables, visit this explanation from the Rainmeter documentation.
Open the Settings panel. Select Text from the sidebar. Input the name of the font on the fields labeled Top text, Bottom text and Controls text. Press the Enter/Return key when you're done typing.
Some fonts have a file name different from its font name. One example for a custom font installed in Windows is named "Circular Std Medium Regular". Upon viewing its name with Windows Font Viewer, the font name shows "Circular Std Medium". Other problematic examples include Chaparral Pro -- it may have a file name of "Chaparral Pro Bold Italic", but a font name of just "Chaparral Pro" with a weight of "Bold" and a style of "Italic".
When using custom fonts with different weights and styles, follow this convention when inputting them:
font-name font-weight font-styleExamples are as follows:
Century Schoolbook Bold ItalicSegoe UI Light
Gotham Heavy Italic
Make sure the font you want to use is installed in Windows or is stored in the Fonts folder of Cleartext. To know its name as displayed by Windows, go to C:\Windows\Fonts and find that font.
If ever you want to go back to the original font used, click on the Reset button.
Right click on the skin and press Refresh skin.
Due to the complexity of the text rendering, it is not advisable to extend the text.
A special plugin is required for Foobar2000 and Rainmeter skins, such as Cleartext, to communicate. It is not included in the skin installer in order to reduce file size. The plugin is available here. Installation procedures are found here in this page.
Sadly, there are no plugins designed to allow communication between Groove Music and any other Rainmeter skins (including Cleartext).
Open the Settings panel. Select Features from the sidebar. Toggle Adaptive Hide using the on/off button.
Edit Cleartext or Cleartext Pure by right-clicking on it and pressing Edit Skin. Under the [Rainmeter] header, is an Update= property. Its value is set to default at 50 milliseconds. Increase the update rate by lowering its value. The update rate of the progress bar is also affected by this change. Note that by lowering its value, you are using more CPU resources which will decrease performance in other applications or result in Rainmeter crashing.
Activate the CD Art Display plugin in MusicBee to allow it and Rainmeter Skins, such as Cleartext, to communicate.
Open the Settings panel. Select Sizes from the sidebar. Under the Scale Cleartext section, input the size you want on the field labeled now at (...). Press the Enter/Return key when you're done typing.
The unit used to input should be in pixels.
It is labeled so, because it indicates the current width of Cleartext. When you're resizing Cleartext, you're actually setting its width. Everything else — element placement, Cleartext's height — is determined by this set width. The default width of Cleartext is determined by size of your monitor, multiplied by some percentage of it.
If ever you want to go back to the original size used, select Reset Scaling under the Reset menu.
Basic Spotify support is done through the revamped NowPlaying measure in Rainmeter 4.2. For full Spotify support, choose WebNowPlaying as the media player in the Cleartext Settings panel, install Spicetify-CLI and enable the WebNowPlaying Companion extension. An instruction guide by marcopixel can be found here.
To enable or disable scrolling, open the Settings panel. Select Features from the sidebar. Under the Scrolling section, toggle the feature with the on/off button.
Cleartext uses the WebNowPlaying plugin which fetches song metadata from websites and displays them. The latest version of this plugin is included in each and every release. In order to fetch these, the WebNowPlaying Companion plugin for your browser must be installed. This is available for Google Chrome, and for Mozilla Firefox and its derivative browsers. Make sure to install them.
After installing the Companion plugin for your browser, open the Settings panel from Cleartext. Under the Player menu, select WebNowPlaying.
If you're having problems with the Firefox version of the WebNowPlaying Companion and Rainmeter, check out instructions to fix here.
The built-in update checker contacts the Update Service every once in a while to check for latest versions of Cleartext. This is available inside the Settings panel. The Updates portion of the Settings panel, which shows for example New 3.2 update available, can be clicked and will lead you to the latest release here in Github. There are also update indicators built-in inside Cleartext and Cleartext Pure.
This badge checks the availability of the Update Service. If it is down, please notify me.
A special plugin is required for VLC and Rainmeter skins, such as Cleartext, to communicate. It is not included in the skin installer in order to reduce file size. The plugin is available here. Installation procedures are found here in this page. The plugin does not support VLC with versions higher than 2.2.