What should I do if the App icon name in the Dock under the Mac desktop appears garbled? A simple instruction can be done. The main reason for this situation may be that when some software is installed, the software contains some malicious code. Although it will not damage the computer, it may cause some impact. The name of the Dock App becomes garbled. One of them situation. Let’s take a look at the solution together~
Use the Terminal command to reset the Dock
to solve this situation, open the terminal, enter the following command, press Enter, the name of the App in the Dock will return to the normal name.
defaults delete com.apple.dock; The killall Dock
command is mainly to let the computer delete the App on the Dock and re-create these App icons again; in addition, if you have set the Dock enlargement and reduction effects, adjusted the Dock size or If there is any change, after executing this series of commands, it will change back to the default, including the App order you adjusted.
Use the Terminal command to display only the running apps.
If you feel that the Dock below is always opening too many useless things but you don’t want to remove it, you can also use the command to hide the App icon that is not in use, enter the following command and press Enter Then the App icon in use can be displayed in the following drawing.
defaults write com.apple.dock static-only -bool TRUE; killall Dock
If you want to change it back, you can change the "TURE" in the command to "FALSE", but I haven't changed it back using the Big Sur test myself. If I change it to the above command to reset the Dock, it will succeed, just like the above Having said that, many settings (such as zoom in, hide) will change back to the default.
The above is what the editor shared for you today, I hope it will be helpful to you~