Camouflage Do you have way too many items on your desktop? Do you hate cleaning up that mess? Camouflage is the right utility for you. It hides all the icons and leaves nothing but the pure wallpaper. Just in case killing the Desktop is a step to far. Thanks, Andrew.
Goodbye Desktop If you want to stop anything appearing on your Mac’s Desktop, but want to keep files in the ~/Desktop directory, open Terminal and run the following: defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool FALSE ; killall Finder After that you won’t see any icons on your Desktop—no files, no folders, no disks; just the pretty picture. To reverse the process, run the command again, replacing FALSE with TRUE.