# Dock Icon type
Choose what information should be shown in the app's Dock icon, if any.
- Tested on macOS:
- Monterey
- Parameter type: int
- 0
- 2
- 3
- 5
- 6
# Set to 0
(default value)
Just show the App's regular icon.
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.
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.
defaults write com.apple.ActivityMonitor "IconType" -int "3" && killall Activity\ Monitor
# Set to 5
Show the current CPU usages, as a verticle meter.
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.
defaults write com.apple.ActivityMonitor "IconType" -int "6" && killall Activity\ Monitor
# Read current value
defaults read com.apple.ActivityMonitor "IconType"
# Reset to default value
defaults delete com.apple.ActivityMonitor "IconType" && killall Activity\ Monitor