Forked from orkoden/hide or show desktop icons.applescript
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April 3, 2025 15:11
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AppleScript to hide your messy desktop icons during presentations for Mac OS X.
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| display dialog "Desktop icons visible or hidden?" buttons {"Visible", "Hidden"} with icon 2 with title "Switch to presentation mode" default button 1 | |
| set switch to button returned of result | |
| if switch is "Hidden" then | |
| do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool FALSE;killall Finder" | |
| else | |
| do shell script "defaults delete com.apple.finder CreateDesktop;killall Finder" | |
| end if |
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