Mac Setup

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Everything I need to set up a new mac.

Constantly evolving

Send me feedback / tips on Twitter @alxcnwy

Mac System settings

• Appearance
  • Dark
• Keyboard shortcuts
  • map caps lock -> escape
• Desktop & Dock
  • setup hot corners
    • top left: Put Display to Sleep
    • top right: Mission Control
    • bottom left: Start Screen Saver
    • bottom right: Desktop
• Screensaver
  • Setup Matrix screensaver in this repo
  • Set screen lock to 60 seconds
• Trackpad settings
  • max out trackpad speed
  • turn on tap to click
  • change swipe between pages to two fingers
  • change swipe between full screen apps to four fingers
  • change mission control to swipe up four fingers
• Energy Saver
• Security and Privacy
  • turn on FileVault
  • audit location and other permissions

Apps

Install the apps in mac_apps.txt - most are from the app store but specialist ones below:

• alt-tab
• Bartender
• BetterTouchTool
• Folder Peek
• HandBrake
• Hazel
• istatmenus
• KeyClu
• little snitch
• Monitor control
• Rewind.ai
• Rocket
• Text sniper
• timingapp
• Warp
• XMenu
• yt-dlp

Terminal

Install Warp.

setup oh-my-zsh

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

copy dotfiles/.zshrc into ~

install shell integrations to enable copy last output shortcut (cmd+shift+a)

setup autojump

ref

setup magic-dashboard

ref

setup homebrew

save

brew list | xargs -L1 > Brewfile

load

cat Brewfile | xargs brew