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This app will cover up your mac desktop icons. But not all of them and not everywhere... That being said, DesktopCover will leave your drive/disk icons on the desktop for easy access. Also if you open a Finder window and take a look at your desktop folder, all your icons including the hidden ones from the desktop background will be visible there.
Once an option has been chosen in DesktopCover sript/app, they will press trough reboot. To go back to the old way, run the script/app again and invert your choice.
the gui + DesktopCover.sh script, you can move the app to your Applications folder or Applications/Utilities folder for permanent use. (Just the app the script is inside the app bundle too) Once opened. Choose to click the hide or show button depending on your choice.
This is the commandline script, the same as that is used in the app bundle (a copy) you can use this file in 2 ways, one with a text based menu or the other with script argument settings.
- Text-Based-Menu-Way
in the terminal browse to the path where the script lives, afterwards, run it.
$ cd path/to/directory
$ ./DesktopCover.sh
You'll get to see a text menu with the following options.
Hide desktop icons?
| type 1 to hide |
| type 0 to unhide |
| type quit to exit and do nothing |
| type help to get more info and exit |
Just type your choice and hit return. Everthing will be done accordingly.
- Script-Arguments way
in the terminal browse tho the path where the script lives, afterwards run the script with arguments, done.
$ cd path/to/directory
to hide
$ ./DesktopCover.sh 0
to show.
$ ./DesktopCover.sh 1