Remove all icons from the Mac OSX Desktop

One of my idiosyncrasies, is to have a neat clutter free desktop. I can look for files on my desktop using PathFinder but I hate the icons showing up all the time! :-)

So, here is the code to get rid of the icons. Fire up your terminal and punch in right away!

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false

# Kill and Relaunch finder
killall Finder

If you want to show the icons, you need to do the opposite using ...

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool true

# Kill and Relaunch finder
killall Finder