Control your Mac: Power tips
Time to go under the hood, using Terminal commands and Activity Monitor to fine–tune your Mac experience
>>>USE TERMINAL
The Terminal app is found in Applications > Utilities. Launch it and you get an old–school, text–based terminal for manually typing in commands — which can include those that adjust hidden macOS preferences. Let’s dig into some…
>>>REVERT FINDER TITLE BARS
Big Sur radically changed title bars, leaving a smaller draggable area and hiding proxy icons. The following command brings the old design back: defaults write com.apple.finder NSWindowSupportsAutomaticInlineTitle -bool false && killall Finder. Switch false to true to revert.
>>>ADJUST THE DOCK
When apps are hidden, make their Dock icon semi–transparent with this command: defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool yes && killall Dock. You can also make a hidden dock instantly appear when you move the cursor to a screen edge with this: defaults write com. apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0 && killall Dock. (The defaults for these two settings are, respectively, no and 0.5.)