macsetup

A shell script I use to setup my mac.

Feel free to suggest other great tools!

Table of contents

• Getting started
• Features

Getting started

Clone this repo to your mac. git clone [email protected]:fharper/macsetup.git

Once cloned, you will need to give execute permission to the script. Replace the path with where you cloned the repository. chmod +x /path/to/script/macsetup.sh

Now, you can run the script. /path/to/script/macsetup.sh

If you are already in the repository directory, you can run simplify the command like this: ./macsetup.sh

Features

This script will make configuration changes to:

• MacOS preferences
• Development tools (installation)
• Development environment (SSH, etc)
• Install apps
• Default file type association

OS configuration changes

Enable features

• Minimize window into application icon
• Show the Library folder
• Allow apps from anywhere to be installed without warning
• Activate silent clicking
• Show all hidden files in Finder
• New Finder windows in my Downloads folder
• Show all file extensions
• Show battery percentage
• Add system menu items for volume and Bluetooth
• Expand save panel

Disable features

• Disable the accent characters menu
• Disable the look up & data detector on Trackpad
• Disable Mission Control and Exposé Gestures on Trackpad
• Disable Show Notification Center on Trackpad
• Disable Launchpad and Show Desktop Gestures on Trackpad
• Disable Guest Account
• Prevent .DS_Store file creation on network volumes
• Disable feedback on volume change
• Deactivate the Chrome printing dialog
• Disable the Notifications Center but don't remove the menubar icon
• (TODO) Deactivate Play user interface sound effects

Create/Change

• Generate the locate database
• Create symlinks between system folders and Dropbox
• Finder display settings
• Git configuration
• Change clock format
• Set computer name
• Search the current folder by default in Finder

First-time dev environment setup

Install

• iTerm (terminal replacement)
• Homebrew
• Homebrew Cask
• Mac App Store CLI
• Pip (python package manager)
• Bundler (ruby gems manager)
• Xcode
• Antibody (shell plugin manager)
• git-open (CLI utility)
• open-pr (CLI utility)
• hub (CLI utility)
• Node 7.X
• npm & yarn
• Caffeine
• Python 3.7.0
• MySQL-shell
• UnCSS
• (TODO) Android Studio SDK & tools

Create

• Public SSH key

More installations

Browsers

• Chrome
• Brave browser
• Firefox
• Opera

Browser replacement utilities

• Parcel
• Pocket
• TweetDeck

Video games

• Battle.net
• Steam
• Boxer
• OpenEmu

Chat

• Slack
• Whatsapp
• Messenger
• Discord
• Signal

Music

• Spotify
• Stars by Karelia
• Noizio

Writing & notes

• Todoist
• Evernote
• MacDown
• MindNode

File management

• Dropbox
• Revisions for Dropbox
• Cryptomator
• FileZilla
• LZip
• PDFSam Basic
• Calibre
• The Unarchiver

Media creation & editing

• Camtasia
• Gimp
• iMovie
• Lightshot
• Luminar
• Kaleidoscope
• Inkscape
• Asciinema
• Duplicate Photo Fixer Pro

Dev tools

• Visual studio code
• Postman
• Teamviewer

Menubar utilities

• Bartender
• Menubar Countdown
• Battery Indicator
• Moom
• The Clock

Touchbar utilities

• BetterTouchTool

Other utilities

• 1Password
• Alfred 3
• TripMode
• Hammerspoon
• Appcleaner
• CopyClip
• DaisyDisk
• Mate Translator
• Time Sink
• Rightzoom
• Zoom it
• YubiKey Personalization Tool
• Larch