Show/Hide desktop items on MacOS
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Xun Zhou

Xun Zhou @vikbert

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Show/Hide desktop items on MacOS

Publish Date: May 15 '22
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I am a minimalist and I prefer to have a very clean desktop without any items. But I wanna be able to find/open the files in finder in the folder ~/Desktop.

To make it possible, I just create two aliases: deskon and deskoff.

alias deskon='defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool true && killall Finder'
alias deskoff='defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false && killall Finder'
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deskoff

by using command deskoff, I can hide all items from desktop to have a clean desktop with only wallpaper. But the hidden files are still shown in finder app on the path ~/Desktop.

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deskon

by using command deskon, I can show the items again.

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