Hide & Show your desktop icons

It's pretty easy to hide and show your desktop icons on a mac. You can copy and paste the following line in your terminal command to hide your icons:

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop false; 
killall Finder

And then, you can easily show your icons with with following commands:

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop true; 
killall Finder

If you want to add this to your .bash_profile, .bashrc, or .zshrc file so that way these commands are readily available, you can add the following:

alias hideicons="defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop false; killall Finder"
alias showicons="defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop true; killall Finder"

And now you can run

hideicons

to Hide your icons, or

showicons

to Show your icons.