Removing icon text on desktop?

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I have just two icons on my desktop, like this.

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That's all very nice, but I'd rather there was no text under them and that they looked like this.

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I'm sure you'll agree that it looks much prettier, but of course it's a mockup.

Can I do this for real?

 
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Create a text file called " .command" (distinct number of leading spaces).
Put "open THEPATHYOUWANT" in it.
In Terminal, chmod +x " .command"
In the Get Info dialog, copy and paste in the icon you want.
In the Get Info dialog, tick "Hide extension"
 
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Oh that's so close!

When it's highlighted or selected it shows like this:

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and I can only have one like that? Obviously I can't have two files called the same " .command"
 
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I have just two icons on my desktop, like this.

icons-20091010-162028.png


That's all very nice, but I'd rather there was no text under them and that they looked like this.

icons_sans_text-20091010-162222.png


I'm sure you'll agree that it looks much prettier, but of course it's a mockup.

Can I do this for real?


Love those icons where they from?
 
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Use a different number of leading spaces for each file.

You could also use the original special "items" and in the Finder view options set label to "Right", grid snap to "None", then put them bang up against the right edge of your desktop :p
 
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I've found another bit of an oops when using that method...

It pops open a terminal window as well!

/edit - Which I can force close through terminal prefs, but it still drops into the dock afterwards.

We're getting there though.
 
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If you won't have any other Terminal sessions open, you could ask Terminal to quit via Applescript as a second line of the script:

open ~
osascript -e 'Tell application "Terminal" to quit'

There's an option in Terminal preferences as to when it will show a Quit confirmation dialog.

-- Though having a Terminal window flash up might be more displeasing than the original problem.. :)
 
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There is one way I thought of.

You could write an apple script that would change the size of the text to '0' or 'false' or something.

I've tried with a few pre written scripts that I found on the net but it wouldn't let me set the size less than 8 :(

My apple script skills are very basic tho, maybe someone with better 'skillz' could try.
 
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