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Quickly show/hide your desktop icons. Good for presentations or taking clean desktop screenshots / photos. Add it to the bottom of your .bash_profile file. Then run 'hideDesktop' or 'showDesktop' in your terminal.
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desktop.profile
alias hideDesktop='defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false; killall Finder'
alias showDesktop='defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool true; killall Finder'
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