Morning All,
Recently I took an unused late 2015 Retina 5K 27" iMac and had someone swap out the 1TB HDD for a 1TB SSD. I used Internet recovery to install El Capitan onto the SDD as that was the version of OS X on it at the time of refurb purchase. While the Apps store wasn't proactively offering to have me upgrade, I managed to manually get the upgrade to Mojave, which was chosen over Catalina as some of the apps I planned on reinstalling were bound to be 32-bit and Catalina only allows 64-bit apps according to the Apple documentation I came across.
Anyway, once Mojave was installed I started to reinstall things like Firefox, Thunderbird and Lightroom and when they appeared in the Apps folder I dragged instances of them from that folder to the dock and then noticed that during their original installations icons for them appeared on the desktop.Other than trying to drag and drop those desktop icons to the trash, which I presume uninstalls the apps, anyway to hide desktop icons? On my Windows and Linux boxes I have very clean desktops with no icons--I even hide the taskbars in those environments.
Recently I took an unused late 2015 Retina 5K 27" iMac and had someone swap out the 1TB HDD for a 1TB SSD. I used Internet recovery to install El Capitan onto the SDD as that was the version of OS X on it at the time of refurb purchase. While the Apps store wasn't proactively offering to have me upgrade, I managed to manually get the upgrade to Mojave, which was chosen over Catalina as some of the apps I planned on reinstalling were bound to be 32-bit and Catalina only allows 64-bit apps according to the Apple documentation I came across.
Anyway, once Mojave was installed I started to reinstall things like Firefox, Thunderbird and Lightroom and when they appeared in the Apps folder I dragged instances of them from that folder to the dock and then noticed that during their original installations icons for them appeared on the desktop.Other than trying to drag and drop those desktop icons to the trash, which I presume uninstalls the apps, anyway to hide desktop icons? On my Windows and Linux boxes I have very clean desktops with no icons--I even hide the taskbars in those environments.
