Enjoy the Touch Bar, but wish you could get more out of it? There are all sorts of ways you can customize and better utilize this thin touch screen; here are five we recommend.

享受触控栏，但希望您能从中获得更多的收益吗？ 您可以通过多种方式自定义并更好地利用此薄型触摸屏。 我们推荐五个。

There’s a lot you can do with the Touch Bar on your MacBook Pro. You could change the buttons, removing things you don’t use (Siri) and adding buttons you do (Pause/Play). Or you could add entirely new features, like a way to switch applications quickly.

MacBook Pro上的Touch Bar您可以做很多事情。 您可以更改按钮，删除不使用的东西(Siri)并添加您要使用的按钮(暂停/播放)。 或者，您可以添加全新的功能，例如快速切换应用程序的方法。

更改默认的触摸栏按钮 (Change the Default Touch Bar Buttons)

Before the Touch Bar came along, you couldn’t really change the top row of keys on your keyboard. Sure, there were third party apps that let you change what the keys did, but they’d still look the same—meaning it was on you to remember the new features.

在触控栏问世之前，您无法真正更改键盘上第一行的键。 当然，有第三方应用程序可以让您更改按键的功能，但是它们看起来仍然一样，这意味着您要记住新功能。

That’s different now. You can from within System Preferences.

现在不一样了。 您可以从“系统偏好设置”内。

This means you can customize the Control Strip—those four buttons on the right side. I personally replace the Siri button with Notification Center, but you could just as easily add a dedicated Mission Control or even Dashboard button if you really want to. Seriously, Apple still thinks about the enough to offer a Touch Bar button for it.

这意味着您可以自定义控制条-右侧的四个按钮。 我个人将“ Siri”按钮替换为“通知中心”，但如果您确实愿意，也可以轻松添加专用的任务控制甚至“仪表板”按钮。 认真地，苹果仍然认为足以为其提供触摸栏按钮。

You can also customize the buttons shown by applications themselves. How flexible you can get depends on how many buttons the application itself offers, but usually there’s quite a few.

您还可以自定义应用程序本身显示的按钮。 您可以得到的灵活性取决于应用程序本身提供多少个按钮，但是通常有很多按钮。

将自定义按钮添加到触摸栏 (Add Custom Buttons to Your Touch Bar)

Apple and apps only offer so many buttons, and you probably won’t find every single function you want. Fortunately, you can with an app named . The app makes things totally customizable. You can choose any icon or color for the button, then map it to do just about anything.

苹果和应用程序仅提供了如此多的按钮，您可能找不到所需的每个功能。 幸运的是，您可以使用名为的应用程序。 该应用程序使事情完全可定制。 您可以为按钮选择任何图标或颜色，然后将其映射为几乎可以执行的任何操作。

Map a button to a keyboard shortcut, if you want, or map it to any kind of system function you can imagine. There are even widgets, capable of showing you things like battery time remaining, or volume and brightness sliders. If you really want to make the Touch Bar your own, BetterTouchTool is the app to get.

如果需要，将按钮映射到键盘快捷方式，或者将其映射到您可以想象的任何类型的系统功能。 甚至还有一些小部件，能够向您显示电池剩余时间或音量和亮度滑块等信息。 如果您真的想使自己的触摸栏成为自己的应用，那么可以使用BetterTouchTool。

在应用程序之间切换 (Switch Between Applications)

If you’re not a big fan of the Dock, or Command+Tab, you can use your Touch Bar to , using an app named .

如果您不是Dock或Command + Tab的，则可以使用Touch Bar名为的应用程序。

TouchSwitcher adds a button to the Control Strip. Tap the button to see a row of icons representing your currently open app. You can also set apps as “Favorites,” allowing you to launch them from the Touch Bar even if they’re not running.

TouchSwitcher将一个按钮添加到控制条。 点按该按钮可看到代表您当前打开的应用程序的图标行。 您还可以将应用设置为“收藏夹”，即使它们没有运行，也可以从触摸栏中启动它们。

一键调整音量或亮度 (Adjust Your Volume or Brightness in One Gesture)

Losing hardware keys for adjusting volume and brightness is kind of a drag. But, at least you can now . Instead of tapping a button multiple times, just press and hold the button in the command strip, then move your finger left or right until you’ve got precisely the level you need.

丢失用于调节音量和亮度的硬件键有点麻烦。 但是，至少现在您可以。 无需多次点击按钮，只需在命令条中按住按钮，然后向左或向右移动手指，直到获得所需的水平即可。

带回某些应用程序的功能键 (Bring Back the Function Keys for Certain Applications)

You might think that, with the Touch Bar, Apple has completely killed off the “Function” keys (F1, F2, F3, etcetera.) But, you can in two ways.

您可能会认为，有了Touch Bar，Apple完全取消了“功能”键(F1，F2，F3等)。但是，您可以通过两种方式。

First, you can always just tap and hole the “Fn” key to have the function keys appear.

首先，您始终可以只点击并敲击“ Fn”键以使功能键出现。

Second, you can head to System Preferences > Keyboard > Function Keys and set certain apps to always show the function keys when they’re running.

其次，您可以转到“系统偏好设置”>“键盘”>“功能键”，并将某些应用程序设置为在运行时始终显示功能键。

It’s been 15 years since Apple downplayed the function number keys on their keyboards, but even now they can’t get rid of them completely. It just goes to show: longstanding computing conventions die hard.

自从苹果淡化了键盘上的功能数字键已经15年了，但是即使到现在，他们也无法完全摆脱它们。 它只是表明：长期的计算约定会死掉。

不断发展的平台 (A Growing Platform)

There’s already a lot you can do with the Touch Bar, but you might be underwhelmed by all this. That’s fair: the Touch Bar hasn’t been around for long, and developers are only beginning to figure out how to use this new space. If you’d like to see some experiments, check out . Seriously: they’re bad.

触控栏已经可以做很多事情，但是您可能对所有这些都不了解。 这很公平：Touch Bar出现时间不长，开发人员才刚刚开始想出如何使用这个新空间。 如果您想看一些实验，请检查。 说真的：他们很糟糕。

And if you don’t have a late 2016 MacBook Pro to try this out on, you can still play with it using on any computer running macOS Sierra. It’s a good way to see how applications are using the space, and how the customization options work. Enjoy!

而且，如果您没有2016年末推出的MacBook Pro，也可以在运行macOS Sierra的任何计算机上使用。 这是查看应用程序如何使用空间以及自定义选项如何工作的好方法。 请享用！

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