LCD Control

SignalRGB’s LCD Control lets you design custom layouts for the LCD screens on your devices. You can show real-time PC stats, control media and audio, add touch-enabled tools, or build purely visual scenes for your desk. Layouts are made from LCD content blocks, and each block adds a specific function or visual effect, styled the way you want.

Getting Started

Open the LCD tab from the navigation menu on the left side of the SignalRGB window.

LCD tab in the SignalRGB navigation menu

Click the device dropdown in the upper-right corner of the page.
Select the device you want to customize. All compatible devices appear in this menu, and you can toggle each one between active and inactive.

The LCD canvas resizes to match the dimensions of your device’s screen. You can now start adding blocks.

Blocks

Blocks are the building pieces of every LCD layout.

Example LCD layout with CPU load and GPU temperature gauges, a clock, and a calendar

Block Types

Info blocks — Show PC stats such as CPU temperature, CPU load, or memory load. These blocks can also show weather, the time, a Twitch channel’s chat, and more.
Background blocks — Animated backgrounds and effects that give your layout style.
Touch blocks — Control PC functions such as volume, set timers, write notes, play mini-games, and more, directly on touch-enabled screens.

Default Blocks

The three default blocks in the block menu

The block menu includes three default blocks:

Effect Canvas — Displays your currently playing SignalRGB effect, so you can use it as a background.
Image/GIF/Video — Displays an image, GIF, or video you upload, as a background or anywhere else in your layout.
Media — Displays the artwork for whatever media is playing, such as a YouTube video or a Spotify track.

Blocks are modular. They automatically adjust their design to fit your device’s screen and to match how you resize the block.

A square block showing a clock and CPU load inside a Pac-Man border

The same block resized to a wide layout, with the clock and CPU load side by side

You can place blocks side by side or stack them on top of each other to combine function with style. For example, stacking Pac-Man on top of Underwater creates a totally new look.

Pac-Man block stacked on top of the Underwater background block

Adding a Block

Click Add Block.
A menu opens with three categories:
- Sources — The three default blocks (Effect Canvas, Image/GIF/Video, and Media). These are always in the menu and cannot be removed.
- My LCD Themes — The blocks you’ve added to your Library from the Shop. This starts out empty. Browse the Shop and add the designs you want to start building your collection.
- Newest LCD Content — Shows what’s new in the Shop. Clicking any of these blocks takes you to the LCD Blocks Shop, where you can browse and add blocks to your Library.
Select a block from the menu to add it to the canvas. Once a block is on the canvas, you can resize it and move it into position.

Editing Block Settings

Select a block to open its settings in the panel on the right side of the page. Settings vary from block to block, but most blocks share a few common options, such as Background Opacity and Border style. These shared settings are especially useful when stacking blocks (see Layering Blocks).

For example, the Monitoring Gauge block includes these settings:

Monitoring Gauge block settings panel

Once you’ve customized a block, you can save its settings as a preset and reuse them anywhere.

Save — Click Save at the top of the block’s settings and give the preset a name. You can load it on any instance of the same block, in any profile.
Copy Share Link — Copies the block’s current settings as a link.
Paste Share Link — Applies copied settings to another instance of the same block. Share links also work between users, so you can send your settings to friends or post them in the community for others to use.

Building Layouts

You can arrange blocks freely on the canvas.

Move — Click and drag a block to a new position.
Resize — Click and drag from a block’s edge or corner.
Select multiple — Hold Ctrl to select several blocks and move them together.
Duplicate — Use the toolbar to copy a selected block, including its settings, or right-click the block for the same options.

Layering Blocks

Stacking blocks lets you combine a function, like a gauge, with a visual effect behind it. The layers list on the right side of the page shows every block on the canvas in stacking order. Click and drag blocks in the list to change their order.

Layers list showing Monitoring Gauges above Plasma Flow

By default, a block’s background covers anything beneath it. To let lower layers show through:

Select the block on the top layer.
Find Background Opacity.
Set the slider to 0.

The empty space in the top block becomes transparent, and the block beneath it is visible.

Monitoring Gauges block layered above the Plasma Flow block

CPU load gauge with the Plasma Flow background showing through

Device Controls

Use the toolbar in the upper-right corner to adjust your device and canvas:

LCD device toolbar

Power — Turns the display on or off.
Brightness — Adjusts display brightness.
Lighting Tuner — Adjusts brightness, color values, and the framerate of effects.
Grid — Shows or hides a grid to help line up blocks.
Rotation — Rotates the canvas to match how your device is physically mounted.

Saving and Switching Layouts

To save your current layout as a profile, click New Profile in the upper-left corner.

Give the profile a name and choose to keep the current settings. To switch layouts, use the dropdown in the upper-left corner. All your saved profiles appear there.