\[._.]/ - Hi, I'm the OSX bot

I will update your OSX machine with better system defaults, preferences, software configuration and even auto-install some handy development tools and apps that my developer friends find helpful.

You don't need to install or configure anything upfront! This works with a brand-new machine from the factory as well as an existing machine that you've been working with for years.

Forget About Manual Configuration!

Don't you hate getting a new laptop or joining a new team and then spending a whole day setting up your system preferences and tools? Me too. That's why we automate; we did it once and we don't want to do have to do it again.

\[^_^]/ - This started as Adam Eivy's OSX shell configuration dotfiles but has grown to a mutil-developer platform for machine configuration.

When I finish with your machine, you will be able to look at your command-line in full-screen mode like this:

Check out how your shell prompt includes the full path & the working git branch! \[._.]/ - I'm so excited I just binaried in my pants!

Watch me run!

Running

Note: I recommend forking this repo in case you don't like anything I do and want to set your own preferences (and pull request them!)

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/atomantic/dotfiles ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles;
./install.sh;

Don't have git installed yet (fresh machine)? Just download the zip file for this project, unzip it into ~/.dotfiles then

cd ~/.dotfiles;
./install.sh;

Note: running install.sh is idempotent. You can run it again and again as you add new features or software to the scripts! I'll regularly add new configurations so keep an eye on this repo as it grows and optimizes.

Restoring Dotfiles

If you have existing dotfiles for configuring git, zsh, vim, etc, these will be backed-up into ~/.dotfiles_backup and replaced with the files from this project. You can restore your original dotfiles by using ./restore.sh

¯\(ツ)/¯ Warning / Liability

Warning: The creator of this repo is not responsible if your machine ends up in a state you are not happy with. If you are concerned, look at install.sh and osx.sh to review everything this script will do to your machine :)

Additional

There are a few additional features in this repo:

.crontab: you can cron ~/.crontab if you want to add my nightly cron software updates.

\[0_0]/ - Note that this may wake you in the morning to compatibility issues so use only if you like being on the edge

Settings

This project changes a number of settings and configures software on OSX. Here is the current list:

Configuring General System UI/UX

Disable local Time Machine snapshots
Disable hibernation (speeds up entering sleep mode)
Remove the sleep image file to save disk space
Set a custom wallpaper image

Standard System Changes

always boot in verbose mode (not OSX GUI mode)
allow 'locate' command
Set standby delay to 24 hours (default is 1 hour)
Disable the sound effects on boot
Menu bar: disable transparency
Menu bar: hide the Time Machine, Volume, User, and Bluetooth icons
Set highlight color to green
Set sidebar icon size to medium
Always show scrollbars
Increase window resize speed for Cocoa applications
Expand save panel by default
Expand print panel by default
Save to disk (not to iCloud) by default
Automatically quit printer app once the print jobs complete
Disable the “Are you sure you want to open this application?” dialog
Remove duplicates in the “Open With” menu (also see 'lscleanup' alias)
Display ASCII control characters using caret notation in standard text views
Disable automatic termination of inactive apps
Disable the crash reporter
Set Help Viewer windows to non-floating mode
Reveal IP, hostname, OS, etc. when clicking clock in login window
Restart automatically if the computer freezes
Never go into computer sleep mode
Check for software updates daily, not just once per week
Disable Notification Center and remove the menu bar icon
Disable smart quotes as they’re annoying when typing code
Disable smart dashes as they’re annoying when typing code

Trackpad, mouse, keyboard, Bluetooth accessories, and input

Trackpad: enable tap to click for this user and for the login screen
Trackpad: map bottom right corner to right-click
Disable “natural” (Lion-style) scrolling
Increase sound quality for Bluetooth headphones/headsets
Enable full keyboard access for all controls (e.g. enable Tab in modal dialogs)
Use scroll gesture with the Ctrl (^) modifier key to zoom
Follow the keyboard focus while zoomed in
Disable press-and-hold for keys in favor of key repeat
Set a blazingly fast keyboard repeat rate:
Set language and text formats (english/US)
Disable auto-correct

Configuring the Screen

Require password immediately after sleep or screen saver begins
Save screenshots to the desktop
Save screenshots in PNG format (other options: BMP, GIF, JPG, PDF, TIFF)
Disable shadow in screenshots
Enable subpixel font rendering on non-Apple LCDs
Enable HiDPI display modes (requires restart)

Finder Configs

Allow quitting via ⌘ + Q; doing so will also hide desktop icons
Disable window animations and Get Info animations
Set Desktop as the default location for new Finder windows
Show hidden files by default
Show all filename extensions
Show status bar
Show path bar
Allow text selection in Quick Look
Display full POSIX path as Finder window title
When performing a search, search the current folder by default
Disable the warning when changing a file extension
Enable spring loading for directories
Remove the spring loading delay for directories
Avoid creating .DS_Store files on network volumes
Disable disk image verification
Automatically open a new Finder window when a volume is mounted
Use list view in all Finder windows by default
Disable the warning before emptying the Trash
Empty Trash securely by default
Enable AirDrop over Ethernet and on unsupported Macs running Lion
Show the ~/Library folder
Expand the following File Info panes: “General”, “Open with”, and “Sharing & Permissions”

Dock & Dashboard

Enable highlight hover effect for the grid view of a stack (Dock)
Set the icon size of Dock items to 36 pixels
Change minimize/maximize window effect to scale
Minimize windows into their application’s icon
Enable spring loading for all Dock items
Show indicator lights for open applications in the Dock
Don’t animate opening applications from the Dock
Speed up Mission Control animations
Don’t group windows by application in Mission Control
Disable Dashboard
Don’t show Dashboard as a Space
Don’t automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use
Remove the auto-hiding Dock delay
Remove the animation when hiding/showing the Dock
Automatically hide and show the Dock
Make Dock icons of hidden applications translucent
Make Dock more transparent
Reset Launchpad, but keep the desktop wallpaper intact
Add iOS Simulator to Launchpad

Configuring Hot Corners

Top left screen corner → Mission Control
Top right screen corner → Desktop
Bottom right screen corner → Start screen saver

Configuring Safari & WebKit

Set Safari’s home page to ‘about:blank’ for faster loading
Prevent Safari from opening ‘safe’ files automatically after downloading
Allow hitting the Backspace key to go to the previous page in history
Hide Safari’s bookmarks bar by default
Hide Safari’s sidebar in Top Sites
Disable Safari’s thumbnail cache for History and Top Sites
Enable Safari’s debug menu
Make Safari’s search banners default to Contains instead of Starts With
Remove useless icons from Safari’s bookmarks bar
Enable the Develop menu and the Web Inspector in Safari
Add a context menu item for showing the Web Inspector in web views

Configuring Mail

Disable send and reply animations in Mail.app
Copy email addresses as 'foo@example.com' instead of 'Foo Bar foo@example.com' in Mail.app
Add the keyboard shortcut ⌘ + Enter to send an email in Mail.app
Display emails in threaded mode, sorted by date (oldest at the top)
Disable inline attachments (just show the icons)
Disable automatic spell checking

Spotlight

Disable Spotlight indexing for any volume that gets mounted and has not yet been indexed
Change indexing order and disable some file types from being indexed
Load new settings before rebuilding the index
Make sure indexing is enabled for the main volume

Terminal & iTerm2

Only use UTF-8 in Terminal.app
Use a modified version of the Solarized Dark theme by default in Terminal.app
Installing the Solarized Dark theme for iTerm
Don’t display the annoying prompt when quitting iTerm
hide tab title bars
set system-wide hotkey to show/hide iterm with ^`

Time Machine

Prevent Time Machine from prompting to use new hard drives as backup volume
Disable local Time Machine backups

Activity Monitor

Show the main window when launching Activity Monitor
Visualize CPU usage in the Activity Monitor Dock icon
Show all processes in Activity Monitor
Sort Activity Monitor results by CPU usage

Address Book, Dashboard, iCal, TextEdit, and Disk Utility

Enable the debug menu in Address Book
Enable Dashboard dev mode (allows keeping widgets on the desktop)
Use plain text mode for new TextEdit documents
Open and save files as UTF-8 in TextEdit
Enable the debug menu in Disk Utility

Mac App Store

Enable the WebKit Developer Tools in the Mac App Store
Enable Debug Menu in the Mac App Store

Messages

Disable automatic emoji substitution (i.e. use plain text smileys)
Disable smart quotes as it’s annoying for messages that contain code
Disable continuous spell checking

Google Chrome & Google Chrome Canary

Allow installing user scripts via GitHub Gist or Userscripts.org

SizeUp.app

Start SizeUp at login
Don’t show the preferences window on next start

Sublime Text

Install Sublime Text settings

Contributions

Contributions are always welcome in the form of pull requests with explanatory comments.

Please refer to the Contributor Covenant

Loathing, Mehs and Praise

Loathing should be directed into pull requests that make it better. woot.
Bugs with the setup should be put as GitHub issues.
Mehs should be > /dev/null
Praise should be directed to @antic or @matthewmccull or @mathiasbynens

Release History

^v1.1.0

Added dotfiles backup and restore.sh script
- you can now restore your previous dotfiles with ./restore.sh
prompting the user more (e.g. brew upgrade is now optional)

cbrock/old-dotfiles