The following doent work on a Windows system and it has been a few years since I have used MacOS - so I do not remember if you can do this. On any of the *nixe

The following doent work on a Windows system and it has been a few years since I have used MacOS - so I do not remember if you can do this. On any of the *nixes that I have used (Debian, NetBSD) there is a similar 'desktop clearing' trick. Simply switch to a non-X tty. Ctl-Alt-F1 on my current version of Karmic Ubuntu. Login and fire up Vim, Emacs, Nano or whatever and you have a zen desktop...