First, accept that you don’t need to refresh your desktop. Unlike Windows 95, icons on a Mac don't randomly rearrange themselves. The desktop is "live."
Apple, for better or worse, treats the user like a passenger. Steve Jobs famously believed that if a computer needed a "refresh" button, the computer was broken. In Apple’s ideal world, the operating system is constantly watching the file system. When you save a document in the background, the Finder window should know instantly. When a webpage loads a new image, Safari should just paint it. refresh key on macbook
But old habits die hard. And if you find yourself slamming the top row of your MacBook, desperately searching for a key that was never there, just remember: . First, accept that you don’t need to refresh your desktop