new-mac-setup.md

Setting up a new Mac

Get the Dock organized

• Go to Settings -> Dock -> "Hide Dock when not in use"
• Remove unused items from dock
• Make it more fun to use:

  defaults write com.apple.dock orientation left
  defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0.05
  killall Dock

Fix tilde key

In terminal, run

sudo hidutil property --set '{"UserKeyMapping":[{"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x700000064, "HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x700000035}]}'

on every boot.

Install fonts

Download Jetbrain Mono nerd font from here. Unzip and copy to ~/Library/Fonts/

Setting a Terminal

• Install ITerm2
• Install brew: /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
• Install oh-my-zsh and change theme to bira.
• Set keyboard shortcucts: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/293988.
• Install a theme: https://github.com/catppuccin/iterm.
• Set font, set opacity.
• Setting -> Appearance -> Panes -> Remove all ticks
• Setting -> Appearance -> Windows -> select "Hide Scrollbar"
• Setting -> Profile -> Default -> Window -> Style -> "No Title Bar"
• Setting -> Profile -> Default -> Window -> Tick "Use transparency"
• Setting -> Profile -> Default -> Window -> Set Transparancy to 8

QoL

• Clipboard Manager - https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy
• Window Manager - https://rectangleapp.com/
• Alt tab like Windows - https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos
• Hide menu bar icons - https://github.com/Mortennn/Dozer

powerlevel10k is also a super cool theme for oh-my-zsh