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Daily Trick 5. Clean Desktop
After using Mac for quite some time, our desktop will surely cluttered with many files. Those icons make your desktop uglier and slow down the system.
Usually, people will suggest you to delete those items on the desktop or move them
somewhere else. However, we can always use this terminal code to hide all desktop
items:
chflags hidden ~/Desktop/*
And to reveal it again, we can use terminal code:
chflags nohidden ~/Desktop/*
But for those people who are not familiar in using Terminal, we can always use Camouflage for Mac.
Using Camouflage, with just a click away you can hide/show your icons.
And what's best is that, you can grab this application for free.
Finally, you will get the cleanest desktop ever. Make sure you grab some gorgeous walls from our previous wallpaper compilation to even beautify your clean Mac desktop.
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10 Comments
nils
Hi.
Great tip.
I included there two command into a function for my .bash_profile. I can toggle hide/unhide by typing hidedesktop in my Terminal.
function hidedesktop () {
hidden=$(ls -lO ~/Desktop/ | grep -c hidden)
if [ $hidden -gt 0 ] ; then
chflags nohidden ~/Desktop/*
echo "Desktop files are NOT hidden"
else
chflags hidden ~/Desktop/*
echo "Desktop files are hidden"
fi
}
nils
sorry the funcition is not readable. Try this link. http://neslob.blogspot.com/
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