How can I hide desktop icon names in Unity desktop, Ubuntu 16.04?

Solution 1:

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"'