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Cleaning up your Mac desktop
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Thursday June 3, 2010
Pimp my PC
Thursday June 3, 2010
A messy desktop is the bane of pimps everywhere. Seriously, just ask Iceberg Slim or Don "Magic" Juan. They'll tell you that a cluttered desktop is a sign of a cluttered mind. Lucas demonstrates the digital equivalent of stuffing all the junk on your desk into a drawer to give the illusion of cleanliness. One way requires some Terminal bashing, the other uses free software to clear the clutter.
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Show Notes
- Open a Terminal window
- Enter the command defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false
- Enter the command killall Finder
- All icons on your desktop will disappear.
- You can still find all the junk you had on the desktop though: Open a Finder window and navigate to the desktop.
- if you want to restore icons to your desktop, open a Terminal window and input the command defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool true
- Enter the command killall Finder and your icons will return.
The easier way:
BrickSoftware.com, makers of Camouflage.
- Enter the command defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false
- Enter the command killall Finder
- All icons on your desktop will disappear.
- You can still find all the junk you had on the desktop though: Open a Finder window and navigate to the desktop.
- if you want to restore icons to your desktop, open a Terminal window and input the command defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool true
- Enter the command killall Finder and your icons will return.
The easier way:
BrickSoftware.com, makers of Camouflage.
Tagged:
customize
,desktop
,desktop clutter
,Lucas Cochran
,Mac OS X
,OS X
,personalize
,pimp
,tweak
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