Ubuntu – How to hide desktop icon names in Unity desktop, Ubuntu 16.04

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Is it possible to hide the text under the desktop icons? I'd like to have them fit into the background and the text is a bit ugly.
setting the text to blanks or spaces would make them not work because they are references to app launchers.

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity launcher if that helps.

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Best Answer

Install package dconf-tools

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

Open dconf-editor 

dconf-editor

under /org/gnome/nautilus/desktop change the "font" key to "Ubuntu 0"

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Command-line alternative to this same approach which doesn't require dconf-editor installation is the following command (note the quoting):

dconf write /org/gnome/nautilus/desktop/font '"Ubuntu 0"'
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