Mac OS 10.15 Apps and configs

mac-apps.md

macOS Apps

⚠️ No longer maintained! ⚠️

Homebrew

# Install x-code command line tools 
xcode-select --install

# Install homebrew iteself
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Optional Homebrew configs

• Add these into your ~/.bash_profile or .zshrc

export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=true
export HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=true
export HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS="--no-quarantine"

Installing GUI apps with homebrew

# https://caskroom.github.io/
brew tap caskroom/cask

# Find and install apps on cask
# https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/find/master

# Search from command line
brew cask search chrome

# Optionally get info about package
brew cask info google-chrome

# then install
brew cask install google-chrome

Download manager

• https://www.macpsd.net/

brew cask install progressive-downloader

Archive manager

• https://theunarchiver.com/

brew cask install the-unarchiver

Disk cleanup

• https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner-mac

brew cask install ccleaner

• https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/

brew cask install appcleaner

• http://www.derlien.com/

brew cask install disk-inventory-x

• https://www.corecode.io/uninstallpkg/index.html
• Cleanup brew cache (Brew can autoclean cache however)

brew cleanup -s --prune=0

Menu bar apps

• https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/

brew cask install itsycal

• For music lovers - https://bitgapp.com/eqmac/

brew cask install eqmac

• https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/bandwidth/id490461369?mt=12

Tweaking apps (Advanced)

• http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html
• https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/index.html

Libre Office

brew cask install libreoffice

Misc

• https://justgetflux.com/

brew cask install flux

• https://www.cockos.com/licecap/

brew cask install licecap

• (For Laptop user)https://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/

brew cask install scroll-reverser

brew cask install shuttle

(Optional and rarely used) Homebrew rmtree

brew tap beeftornado/rmtree
# Example usage
brew rmtree httpd

mac-configs.md

Configs

Home and end keys bindings

• http://blog.evilissimo.net/mac-os-x-keyboard-bindings-for-home-and-end-keys

Dock hide/show speed up

• https://9to5mac.com/2017/05/09/macos-dock-autohide-animation-video/

defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.25;killall Dock

Turn off animations

• https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/14001/how-to-turn-off-all-animations-on-os-x

Terminal themes

• https://github.com/lysyi3m/osx-terminal-themes

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lysyi3m/macos-terminal-themes/master/themes/Dracula.terminal

Disable spotlight showing xcode files

• https://www.howtogeek.com/231829/how-to-disable-developer-search-results-in-spotlight-on-a-mac/

# Make sure you don't have xcode (Full IDE) installed
touch /Applications/Xcode.app

Disable Character Picker

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

Hide "Last login" message from terminal

touch ~/.hushlogin

Other tweaks

• Disable OS updates

• Increase backspace speed

• Finder default location

• Disable smart quotes

• Change screenshots folder location

• Wants More? https://gist.github.com/brandonb927/3195465

php-development.md

• https://getgrav.org/blog/macos-catalina-apache-multiple-php-versions

IDE

brew cask install sublime-text
brew cask install phpstorm

# I don't like electron apps either, you can skip it
brew cask install visual-studio-code

SQL GUI

brew cask install sequel-pro

# Postgresql
brew cask install postico

git

brew install git
brew install git-gui

Optional

• Tune MySql for lower RAM usage:
• Update /usr/local/etc/my.cnf with

#[mysqld]
performance_schema = OFF

terminal.md

Customise terminal prompt

Install

# Remove oh-my-zsh if installed
rm -rf ~/.oh-my-zsh

# Backup zsh config
mv ~/.zshrc ~/.zshrc-bak

# Download pure in zsh folder
mkdir -p "$HOME/.zsh"
git clone --single-branch https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure.git "$HOME/.zsh/pure"

zshrc config

Create ~/.zshrc file and paste this content

# pure prompt
fpath+=("$HOME/.zsh/pure")
autoload -U promptinit; promptinit
prompt pure

# single line prompt
prompt_newline='%666v'
PROMPT=" $PROMPT"

# pure configs
PURE_CMD_MAX_EXEC_TIME=60

SAVEHIST=1000  
HISTFILE=~/.zsh_history

# git auto-complete
autoload -Uz compinit && compinit

Open new terminal

• If you see error like : zsh compinit: insecure directories, run compaudit for list. then run this command, source

compaudit | xargs chmod g-w

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