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Re:Stupid Unix Tricks by wyclif on Thursday October 17, 2019 @07:04PM (#21287174)
His tip about running "make clean" on ~/Desktop is okay, assuming people actually use Desktop the way he does. Which I observe that many, possibly most, users don't. Apple says that "The desktop is where you do most of your work", but I see a lot of desktops with no files whatsoever.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh40612/mac

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Re:Stupid Unix Tricks by pololee on Thursday October 17, 2019 @07:52PM (#21287430)
Very true because I don't want any file icons on my wallpaper. Btw, i use this https://irvue.tumblr.com/
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Re:Stupid Unix Tricks by jayrhynas on Friday October 18, 2019 @09:47AM (#21291301)
You can also hide all the desktop icons with a defaults setting:

    defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop false
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Re:Stupid Unix Tricks by pololee on Saturday October 19, 2019 @02:19AM (#21297089)
Aha, thanks for sharing!
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Re:Stupid Unix Tricks by wyclif on Friday October 18, 2019 @04:32AM (#21289615)
Everybody in development that I work with keeps all their local work in ~/username
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