![]() ![]() Notice how there is literally nothing on the desktop? Just a clean image of the background wallpaper? That’s what this trick does. ![]() If you’re wondering what this looks like when it’s in effect, it’s basically a super-clean desktop like this: All of the files still exist, but they’re now discretely hidden in your home folder’s “Desktop” directory rather than cluttering up the visible desktop. The desktop will no longer display icons, effectively hiding them from appearing. You can expedite the hiding of the desktop icons on the Mac by turning the command string into a single line to be copied and pasted into the Terminal window, like this:ĭefaults write CreateDesktop -bool false killall Finder say icons hidden This trick works to disable the desktop and hide all the desktop icons exactly the same in all versions of MacOS and Mac OS X, from Mac OS X Snow Leopard to OS X Yosemite to MacOS Mojave and everything in between, and presumably later too. Once the command is executed correctly, the Finder will refresh and all desktop icons will instantly disappear – the files will still exist, they are just no longer visible on the desktop.
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