Hide Finder’s desktop
Finder has the option to hide icons for drives and devices, but not for other files and folders. I wanted to hide these so that I could keep a clean desktop but still use the ‘Desktop’ folder. There is ‘Camouflage’ but this puts an icon in the menu bar and I see it as more of a temporary solution.
Using ‘Pref Setter’ from Night Productions, http://www.nightproductions.net/prefsetter.html
it is possible to hide the whole desktop very easily.
Open Pref Setter and double-click on com.apple.finder. Look for an entry called ‘CreateDesktop’ - if there is not one there, then create a boolean key using the ‘actions’ menu, give it this name and set it to false.
Restart the Finder and your desktop should be hidden. To undo the changes, just set the value to ‘true’.
There are other preference editors, however I like Pref Setter as it is both free and easy to use. If you want to be very minimal, you can of course uninstall Pref Setter once you’re done!
(Submitted by Andrew)
