A personal setup script for setting up a new macOS environment after a fresh install.
If you fork this, adjust to your needs.
Based on https://github.com/nnja/new-computer which in itself uses resources from the following:
- https://github.com/ruyadorno/installme-osx/
- https://gist.github.com/millermedeiros/6615994
- https://gist.github.com/brandonb927/3195465/
Additional references for new settings:
- https://pawelgrzybek.com/change-macos-user-preferences-via-command-line/
- https://macos-defaults.com/
These apps need to be configured manually.
For OSX settings, I'm still looking for the command line way to change this preference.
Checked:
- Reverse Scrolling
- Reverse vertical
- Reverse horizontal
- Reverse Mouse
Unchecked:
- Reverse Trackpad
Checked:
- Start at login
Unchecked:
- Show in menu bar
- Iterm2 -> Preferences -> General
- Check: Load preferences from custom folder /Users/nina/dotfiles/iterm-profiles
- Check: Save changes to folder when Iterm2 quits
Users & Groups
- make sure guest account is turned off
Keyboard
- Use F1, F2 as standard function keys: ON
- Turn off spotlight (use Alfred instead)
- Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Spotlight -> Deselect all
- Customize control strip -> Delete siri from touchbar
- Touch Bar Shows -> F1, F2, etc. Keys
General
- Recent items: None
- Appearance: Graphite
- Highlight color: Pink
Mission Control
- Dashboard: As Overlay
Desktop & Screen Saver
- Screensaver
- Hot Corners
- Top right -> Dashboard
- Bottom right -> Start screen saver
- Hot Corners
Trackpad
- Tap to click: ON
- Secondary click: ON
Display
- Night Shift (flux) -> Schedule -> Sunrise to Sunset
Security & Privacy
- Firewall -> on
- Firewall options -> Enable stealth mode
- FileVault -> Turn On FileVault (encrypt harddrive)
Sharing
- Ensure everything is unchecked
Finder Preferences
- General
- New finder window show: home folder
- Sidebar
- Show home, remove Recents
- Advanced
- Show all filename extensions: ON
- Show warning before changing an extension: OFF
- Show warning before emptying the trash: OFF
TrackPad
- Point & Click
- Silent clicking -> On
- Sign into chrome to sync profile & bookmarks
- Chrome -> Warn before quitting: ON
- Set Double Cmd to Alfred hotkey
- configure license
- settings -> automatically start at login
- Simple Modifications
- From key caps_lock to key left_control (Remap caps lock to control for emacs)
- From key right_control to key
b(custom setting for my ergonomic keyboard)
- Devices
- For all devices -> Caps Lock LED Check Manipulate LED
- Download
- docs for:
- python2
- python3
- django
- flask
- arduino
- processing
- man pages
- cheatsheets for:
- emacs
- git
- python debugger
- python unittest assertions
- log into freenode
Useful shipping status tracker widget
Apps:
- Send to kindle for Mac
- Delivery Status Dashboard Widget
- Flip Clock Screensaver
- FlyCut Clipboard Manager
- Visit this page to opt out of ads (turn off adblock first)
- Configure touchbar?
- Set up wallpaper
- osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to set desktop picture to "/Users/wilsonmar/Pictures/wallpapers/macOS-High-Sierra-Wallpaper-2880x1494.jpg" as POSIX file'
- Set up alfred powerpack