Show or Hide Desktop Icons With AppleScript Action in DintAction

When preparing app preview movie for Mac App Store, i prefer hide my desktop icons first, this will give a clean desktop in the movie.

Hide desktop icons with AppleScript

Add a new AppleScript action in DintAction, below is the script:

do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop false; killall Finder"

Show desktop icons back again

After the screen recording completed, you can get back desktop icons with this script:

do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop true; killall Finder"

Please note: the script will relaunch Finder

• DintAction
• AppleScript