The Transistor Desktop

Reader Raghken was so enamored with the teaser trailer for Supergiant Games' upcoming title, Transistor (you can read all about it over at Kotaku) that he built this week's featured desktop around it. Even if you're unfamiliar with the game, the wallpaper is gorgeous.

If you are familiar with the game (or familiar with Supergiant Games' previous hit game, Bastion, you'll want to keep an eye out for Transistor. It looks great. If you're not into video games, just appreciate the stylized cityscape wallpaper, and the way Raghken incorporated Rainmeter into it like it belongs there.

Here's how he did it, and what you'll need to make it your own:

• The wallpaper, an HD screencap from the Transistor teaser trailer
• The Julius Sans One font for the Rainmeter widgets and system text (the same font used in the trailer)
• Rainmeter, a system tweaking and monitoring tool for Windows
• The Simple Media theme for Rainmeter for the time and date display
• The Elementary theme for Rainmeter for the weather
• The Rainbow theme for the app launcher in the upper left
• The Muziko theme for Rainmeter for the "Now Playing" display

With those themes and the right font, you should have no trouble making this desktop your own, or just tweaking it so it fits better with your workflow. If you do run into issues though, stop by the original thread in our #featured-desktop forum to ask your questions, or check out our guide to Rainmeter for tips.

Do you have a good-looking, functional desktop that you want to see featured here? Submit it?along with where you got the wallpaper, skins, and geeklets?to us for review. We have two different ways you can share it with us:

Linux, Mac, Windows, all are welcome. Whatever you choose to use, include a description of how you made your desktop when you send it in. Without that, we can't tell others how to make it for themselves so they can be featured too!

Original Post via #featured-desktop

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/Kj5EY66obkQ/the-transistor-desktop

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