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Hide/Show Desktop Icons in Mac OS X
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Hide all desktop icons:

$ defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false
$ killall Finder

Show all desktop icons:

$ defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool true
$ killall Finder
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