Instead of using your monitor’s built-in controls to adjust brightness, contrast, and color, a third-party app called ClickMonitorDDC can help you set up everything and make adjustments with keyboard shortcuts.

无需使用显示器的内置控件来调整亮度，对比度和颜色，而是使用名为ClickMonitorDDC的第三方应用程序可以帮助您设置所有内容并使用键盘快捷键进行调整。

By Whitson Gordon

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Most PC monitors come with a host of adjustments like brightness, contrast, and color settings. These can often be tweaked with a set of clunky menus using buttons hidden on the side of the display. However, by turning to a third-party app, you can adjust these settings from an icon in the taskbar, or even with a quick keyboard shortcut.

大多数PC 显示器都可以进行许多调整，例如亮度，对比度和颜色设置。 通常可以使用隐藏在显示屏侧面的按钮，通过一组笨拙的菜单进行调整。 但是，通过使用第三方应用程序，您可以从任务栏上的图标甚至使用快捷键盘快捷键来调整这些设置。

We’re not talking about apps like F.lux. As useful as they are, F.lux and other “Night Shift” features only adjust the color temperature of the picture, not the actual brightness of the screen. There are plenty of apps that can adjust these hardware-level settings, but the most powerful we tested was ClickMonitorDDC.

我们不是在谈论F.lux之类的应用。 F.lux和其他“ Night Shift”功能虽然非常有用，但仅调整图片的色温，而不调整屏幕的实际亮度。 有很多应用程序可以调整这些硬件级别的设置，但是我们测试过的最强大的功能是ClickMonitorDDC 。

It’s named for Display Data Channel (DDC), the communication protocol that monitors use to communicate with a PC’s graphics chip. To use ClickMonitorDDC, your monitor needs to support the DDC/CI command interface. Most modern monitors do, but you should be aware that it may not work with every display currently on the market.

它以显示数据通道 (DDC)的名称命名，DDC是监视显示器与PC图形芯片进行通信的通信协议。 要使用ClickMonitorDDC，您的显示器需要支持DDC / CI命令界面。 大多数现代显示器都可以，但您应该注意，它可能不适用于当前市场上的所有显示器。

设置ClickMonitorDDC (Set Up ClickMonitorDDC)

Download ClickMonitorDDC-either the installer or the portable version, which you can unzip anywhere you want-and start it up. You’ll see an icon appear in your system tray, though you can expand it to view all of ClickMonitorDDC’s icons, each one representing a different setting you can tweak.

下载ClickMonitorDDC(安装程序或便携式版本)，您可以将其解压缩到任何位置，然后启动它。 您会看到一个图标出现在系统托盘中，尽管您可以展开它以查看ClickMonitorDDC的所有图标，每个图标代表您可以调整的不同设置。

Click one to see the full window, which allows you to click and drag the sliders to reach your desired brightness. You can even switch between the monitor’s built-in presets, like Movie or FPS Gaming, although only one of mine actually matched the name to the preset. The others were just random numbers, so it took a little trial and error to figure out which was which.

单击一个可查看整个窗口，您可以单击并拖动滑块以达到所需的亮度。 您甚至可以在监视器的内置预设之间进行切换，例如“电影”或“ FPS游戏”，尽管只有我的一个实际将名称与预设匹配。 其他的只是随机数，因此花了一些反复试验才能弄清楚是哪个。

This panel alone is incredibly useful, and if all you need is occasional adjustments, you can stop here. But if you right-click on one of ClickMonitorDDC’s icons, you can enter the Settings, which holds a ton of useful customizations. There’s a lot to check out here, but one place you should definitely start is the shortcuts.

仅此面板非常有用，如果您需要的只是偶尔的调整，则可以在此处停止。 但是，如果右键单击ClickMonitorDDC的图标之一，则可以输入“设置”，其中包含大量有用的自定义设置。 这里有很多值得一看的地方，但是快捷方式绝对是您应该开始的地方。

创建快捷方式 (Create Shortcuts)

If you click on Manage Mouse, Manage Hot Keys, or Timer Transfer Limits, you can customize your own mouse shortcuts, keyboard shortcuts, or schedules, respectively. This allows you to, say, adjust the brightness with Ctrl+Shift+MouseWheel, or set the brightness to automatically dim 50 percent at nighttime.

如果单击“管理鼠标”，“管理热键”或“计时器传输限制”，则可以分别自定义自己的鼠标快捷方式， 键盘快捷方式或时间表。 例如，这使您可以使用Ctrl + Shift + MouseWheel调整亮度，或将亮度设置为在夜间自动调暗50％。

To do so, choose your shortcut and enter one of ClickMonitorDDC’s “command-line” commands-these are very simple, and you’ll find them on the app’s home page. So, the command b 100 would set the brightness to 100, and b+20 would raise the brightness 20 points. Dig through the list and look at ClickMonitorDDC’s examples for ideas. It’s quite powerful once you set it up the way you like it.

为此，选择快捷方式，然后输入ClickMonitorDDC的“命令行”命令之一-这些非常简单，您可以在应用程序的主页上找到它们。 因此，命令b 100将亮度设置为100，而b + 20将亮度提高20点。 浏览列表，并查看ClickMonitorDDC的示例以获取想法。 一旦按照自己喜欢的方式进行设置，它就会非常强大。

If ClickMonitorDDC doesn’t work for you, it may be worth trying an alternative, like ScreenBright (whose website is now defunct, but can still be found on sites like Softpedia). It isn’t quite as powerful, but I have encountered situations where one DDC/CI program works and another doesn’t, so it’s always worth a shot.

如果ClickMonitorDDC对您不起作用，则可能值得尝试其他替代方法，例如ScreenBright(该网站现已失效，但仍可以在Softpedia等网站上找到)。 它虽然没有那么强大，但是我遇到一种情况，其中一个DDC / CI程序可以工作，而另一个DDC / CI程序不能工作，因此它总是值得一试。

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