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Details of my Mac setup for future reference
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# Mac setup



This repo simply serves as repository for how I setup various things on a Mac, in case of the time when I either change it or it blows up!



General and base stuff will go here. App or tool specific stuff will have their own files.



- [Git](git.md)

- [GPG](gpg.md)

- [iTerm2](iterm2.md)

- [NVM](nvm.md)

- [Oh my zsh](ohmyzsh.md)

- [OpenVPN](openvpn.md)

- [Rbenv](rbenv.md)

- [S3cmd tools](s3cmdtools.md)

- [SSH](ssh.md)

- [Terminal](terminal.md)

- [Vim](vim.md)

- [VSCode](vscode.md)



## System Settings



Changes I make to the Mac in settings to get it how I like it.



### Sound



- Untick `Play sound on startup`



### General > Software Update > Automatic updates



- Tick `Install application updates from the App store`



### General > AirDrop & Handoff



- Change `AirDrop` to `Everyone`



### Appearance



- Set `Appearance` to `Dark`

- Set `Show scroll bars` to `Always`

- Set `Click in the scroll bar to` to `Jump to the spot that's clicked`



### Siri & Spotlight



- Untick `Ask Siri`



### Desktop & Dock



- Set `Position on screen` to `Left`



### Desktop & Dock > Mission Control



- Untick `Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use`. This will stop my full screen apps from moving position.

- Untick `Group windows by application`. Should be able to more easily move between the windows of an app.



### Displays > Night shift



- Set `Schedule` to `Sunset to Sunrise`



### Wallpaper



- Use black color



### Battery



- Set `Low Power Mode` to `Never`



### Keyboard



- Set `Turn backlight keyboard off after inactivity` to `After 5 minutes`



### Trackpad



- Untick `Force Click and haptic feedback`

- Untick `Look up & data detectors`



## Base installations



Core stuff I install which also supports getting other things loaded and/or setup. To save time when doing these all in one go you can skip the `brew update` that happens with each `brew install`.



Just call `export HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1` in the terminal session you are using to run all your installs.



- [Homebrew](https://brew.sh/) `/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"`

- [Avast antivirus](https://www.avast.com/en-gb/index#mac) `brew install --cask avast-security`

- [Google Chrome](https://www.google.com/chrome/index.html) `brew install --cask google-chrome`

- [DBeaver](https://dbeaver.io/) `brew install --cask dbeaver-community`

- [Docker Desktop](https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/) `brew install --cask docker`

- [Slack](https://slack.com/downloads/osx) `brew install --cask slack`

- [InTune](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/user-help/enroll-your-device-in-intune-macos-cp) `brew install --cask intune-company-portal`

- [Trailer](https://github.com/ptsochantaris/trailer) `brew install --cask trailer`

- [Postman](https://www.postman.com/) `brew install --cask postman`

- [Keka](https://www.keka.io/en/) `brew install --cask keka`

- [Tokei](https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/tokei/) `brew install tokei`

- [The Silver searcher (ag)](https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher) `brew install the_silver_searcher`

- [Licecap](https://www.cockos.com/licecap/) `brew install --cask licecap`

- [Stats](https://github.com/exelban/stats) `brew install --cask stats`

- [Jitsi](https://jitsi.org/) `brew install --cask jitsi-meet`



## Contributing



If you think I'm doing something wrong or have a better way create an issue or better yet raise a pull request and show me.



## License



This information is available as open source under the terms of the [MIT License](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).



> If you don't add a license it's neither free or open!