hideicons

Display or hide the desktop icons from the command line on macOS.

Installation

Using homebrew:

brew tap meowmeowmeowcat/taps
brew install meowmeowmeowcat/taps/hideicons

Install manually:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meowmeowmeowcat/hideicons/main/hideicons \
 -o /usr/local/bin/hideicons && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/hideicons

Example

If your desktop icons are not hidden:

$ hideicons
Desktop icons are hidden!

If your desktops icons are hidden:

$ hideicons
Desktop icons are shown!