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Dock Icon type ​

Choose what information should be shown in the app's Dock icon, if any.

  • Tested on macOS:
    • Sonoma
    • Ventura
    • Monterey
  • Parameter type: int
    • 0
    • 2
    • 3
    • 5
    • 6

Set to 0 (default value) ​

Just show the App's regular icon.

bash
defaults write com.apple.ActivityMonitor "IconType" -int "0" && killall Activity\ Monitor

Set to 2 ​

Show Network usage over time, as two mirrored line graphs. The top (blue) chart shows down-stream traffic. The bottom (red) chart shows up-stream traffic.

bash
defaults write com.apple.ActivityMonitor "IconType" -int "2" && killall Activity\ Monitor

Set to 3 ​

Show Disk usage over time, as two mirrored line graphs. The top (blue) chart shows disk read traffic. The bottom (red) chart shows disk write traffic.

bash
defaults write com.apple.ActivityMonitor "IconType" -int "3" && killall Activity\ Monitor

Set to 5 ​

Show the current CPU usages, as a verticle meter.

bash
defaults write com.apple.ActivityMonitor "IconType" -int "5" && killall Activity\ Monitor

Set to 6 ​

Show CPU usage history, graphed over time. If your device has 4 threads or less, it'll show one graph per thread, all stacked vertically. If you have more than 4 threads, then only one bar graph will be shown, for the total CPU usage.

bash
defaults write com.apple.ActivityMonitor "IconType" -int "6" && killall Activity\ Monitor

Read current value ​

bash
defaults read com.apple.ActivityMonitor "IconType"

Reset to default value ​

bash
defaults delete com.apple.ActivityMonitor "IconType" && killall Activity\ Monitor