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If you type defaults...

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If you type defaults...

Submitted by Daniel Lawson (not verified) on February 23, 2006 - 8:42am.

If you type defaults write com.apple.Finder QuitMenuItem 1 in Terminal, the Finder gets a quit menu item. If you quit the finder, all the clutter on the desktop goes away. Clicking on the Finder in the Dock relaunches it, but in the meantime, “hide others” will leave just your one program running, with no distracting clutter on the desktop. Now if I could only do that to my real desktop…

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5 apps to rescue the distracted By: Merlin Mann (56 replies) February 23, 2006 - 7:44am
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