ahmet’s macOS Setup

Download Xcode

For google, go/xcode. This will take a lot of time, so start with this.

OS Settings

TODO: find defaults write commands for these.

• Invert Trackpad Scroll Direction to non-natural.

• Show battery percentage on menu bar.

• Show date on menu bar.

• Keyboard → Text → Uncheck autocorrect and such settings.

• Remove useless items from the Dock.

• Move Dock to right, make it smaller.

• Drag Downloads folder next to the Trash on the Dock.

  • Right Click → Sort by Date Added.

• Show Path Bar on Finder.

• Move $HOME folder to Finder sidebar.

• Set shortcuts

  • Accessibility: Invert colors: Cmd+Shift+I
  • Screenshots:
    • Uncheck all
    • Save selected area to file: Cmd+Shift+4
    • Save selected area to clipboard: Cmd+Shift+2

• Hot Corners:

  • Top-left: Put Display to Sleep
  • Clear other corners

Tweaks:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleShowScrollBars -string "Always" # show scrollbar always
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles true   # Show hidden files
defaults write com.apple.finder ShowStatusBar -bool true # Show Finder statusbar

# Default Finder location is the home folder
defaults write com.apple.finder NewWindowTarget -string "PfLo" && \
  defaults write com.apple.finder NewWindowTargetPath -string "file://${HOME}"

chflags nohidden ~/Library                               # Unhide ~/Library

# default screenshot path
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Downloads

# disable smart quotes and dashes
defaults write 'Apple Global Domain' NSAutomaticDashSubstitutionEnabled 0
defaults write 'Apple Global Domain' NSAutomaticQuoteSubstitutionEnabled 0
defaults write 'Apple Global Domain' NSAutomaticPeriodSubstitutionEnabled 0

Shell

• Make sure zsh is installed.
• TODO: fill out if there are any zinit related instructions.

Package manager

• Install Homebrew —to $HOME/.homebrew instead of /usr/local:

  git clone https://github.com/Homebrew/brew.git $HOME/.homebrew
  

• Run which brew to confirm the one in home directory is picked up.

• Run brew analytics off

Installing software manually

• Download Dropbox
  • Sign in
  • Sync only 1Password
• Download iPassword 6
  • Choose .opvault file from Dropbox
  • Go to Software Licenses → open the 1Password license file
  • Accept to use 1Password Mini when prompted

Installing software via Homebrew

All software installed on the system must be listed in .Brewfile. This is symlinked at ~/.Brewfile and used by brew bundle.

To install all the software, add it to .Brewfile and run:

brew bundle --global

Some stuff will take long, in that case, identify which packages and update .Brewfile to install them with args: ['force-bottle'] or do a one-off brew install --force-bottle [pkg] install.

Some things that require manual installation after Homebrew:

# if pip requires sudo, something is wrong, because the
# Homebrew bundle should install a $USER-writable over system-python.
    
pip install virtualenv
pip install virtualenvwrapper

Post-Installation Configuration

• Rectangle

  • Security->Accessibility: Give access
  • Launch at Login

• Clipy

  • Launch at Login
  • Hide from Menu Bar
  • Set history size to 200
  • Set paste key to Cmd+Shift+V

• fzf completion scripts:

  "$HOMEBREW_PREFIX"/opt/fzf/install
  

• minikube xhyve driver:

  # minikube uses xhyve, which requires privileged access to the hypervisor
  sudo chown root:wheel /usr/local/opt/docker-machine-driver-xhyve/bin/docker-machine-driver-xhyve
  sudo chmod u+s /usr/local/opt/docker-machine-driver-xhyve/bin/docker-machine-driver-xhyve
  

Settings Sync

• Clone this repo and run install_symlinks.sh

  • Open a new terminal to take effect.

• VSCode:

  • Install "Settings Sync" extension and reload.
  • Run '> Sync: Download Settings'
  • Enter gist ID in vscode.sync file to prompt.
  • Once extensions are installed 'Reload' (or Restart)
  • Run '> Sync: Update/Upload Settings'
  • Create a token with 'gist' permissions and save it to the prompt
  • Wait for the Sync Summary.

Hardware

• Evoluent ergo mouse driver: https://evoluent.com/support/download/
• Das Keyboard
  • Settings → Keyboard → Modifier Keys: flip the Option/Command keys for "daskeyboard" profile.