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Customize the monitor icon

Finished Product Effect

The script of HiDPi can also be used to customize the monitor icon. However, giving someone a fish is not as good as teaching them how to fish. Without further ado, here comes the tutorial.

View Monitor Information

Use Hackintool to view monitor information:

Take the above DP monitor as an example and extract the key information (which will be used later):

  • Vendor ID = 216D
  • Product ID = 2800

Create Folders and Icon Files

Go to the /Library/Displays/Contents/Resources/Overrides folder. There are only two steps:

  1. Create the DisplayVendorID - {Vendor ID} folder.
  2. Name your icon as DisplayProductID - {Product ID}.icns.

Just restart after the replacement.