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Work · June 20, 2019

Show / Hide Desktop Icons

Instantly toggle the visibility of desktop icons in macOS

Show / Hide Desktop Icons launched on June 20, 2019 with 6 votes, #977 of 2,757 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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What it does

This is a simple Automator app written is shell script that toggle the visibility of desktop icons in macOS. Extracting the downloaded file, drag the "Show / Hide Desktop Icons" app to your Dock and you are done.

Toggle the visibility of desktop icons in Mac OS X - amarilindra/Show-Hide-Mac-Desktop-Icons

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