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my customizations + setup for macos

Primary LanguageShell

Personal Setup for macOS

Basic Settings/Setup

  • Download Google Chrome at website Set as default browser
    • Sign in to Chrome user accounts
  • Dock
    • Remove: System Preferences (accessible from top-left logo anyway), Safari, Mail, Maps, Contacts, Photos, Reminders, iTunes, Podcasts, AppleTV, News, Notes, and App Store. Remember that these are accessible via Cmd + (space) (spotlight search)
    • In System Preferences, set automatic hide and show
    • In System Preferences, uncheck "show previous apps"
  • Keyboard
    • Key Repeat = Fast Delay Until Repeat = Short
    • Turn off backlight after 10 seconds of inactivity
    • Modifier Keys: Caps Lock --> Control (makes tmux life SO much easier)
  • Trackpad
    • Tap to Click = On (feels nicer)
    • Uncheck Smart Zoom and Rotate (Scroll & Zoom tab)
  • Finder
    • Sidebar: home, Downloads, Desktop, Applications
    • new Finder window shows: home
    • show all filename extensions
  • Menubar
    • Show Bluetooth in menubar
    • Show battery % in menubar
  • General
    • Set accent/highlight color to red
    • Scroll bar: always
  • Spotlight
    • Uncheck: Fonts, Images, Documents
  • Messages
    • turn off sounds and notification center
  • Mail
    • Use either spark (+ TickTick) or outlook (since college email tied to msft)
    • When you wish to switch primaries: change primary (through apple mail app), setup open at login, set notification settings, consider tasks app change
    • Apple mail - default primary
  • Desktop
    • create folder Screenshots
    • defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/kesavan/Desktop/Screenshots
  • Command line tools: xcode-select --install
  • Install homebrew /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)" website
    • brew doctor to make sure install was successful
  • brew install git
  • brew install node
  • Terminal: Homebrew theme, change font size
  • git config --global user.name "kvenkatesh5" - git config --global user.email "..."
  • brew install vim installs dependencies for vim
  • brew install nvim because I want to use neovim!
  • brew install zsh but for macOS Catalina it should already be set as default shell type in case
  • sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)" for oh-my-zsh
  • ZSH_DISABLE_COMPFIX=true in zshrc BEFORE oh-my-zsh is sourced then update
    • upgrade_oh_my_zsh
  • Disable ZSH noises (see .zshrc source)
    • resolves permission issues as per this
  • Install Spotify
  • install Lastpass
  • install Zoom
  • remove launchpad from Dock, it is just a hotkey away (f4 (not with fn))
  • ./.macos file (see [https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles])
    • read this
    • maybe try this out with a harmless bash script just to make sure we know what we are doing
    • add this ./.macos script to the dotfiles directory and comment out commands either don't know or don't need
    • cd and then make symlink to file in home
    • go to dotfiles and change permission of original file (in dotfiles directory) via chmod +x ./.macos
    • go to home and run the file ./.macos
  • install Messenger, Whatsapp, Slack for mac, Discord for mac, Twitter
  • install f.lux for screen brightness management (a bit annoying but helps eyes)
  • install Firefox Developer Edition
  • install Sublime Text 3, Visual Studio Code
  • install Geany as a potential tool for editing
  • instlal Dropbox

vscode

  • install settings sync extension and update environment
  • defaults write com.microsoft.VSCode ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

iTerm (guake style) dropdown terminal

  • iTerm2: brew cask install iterm2 or via website
  • *this is optional since native mac terminal is decent too
  • open at login, hide from cmd+t, hotkey currently using is SHFT+CRTL (remember =caps lock!) + T
  • I think one idea is just to keep iterm hidden from cmd+tab, disable guake style dropdwon, but set ctrl+t hotkey toquickly open all windows

Dotfile management

  • ln -s creates symbolic link, -v makes it verbose
  • mv ~/.gitconfig ~/dotfiles/.gitconfig
  • ln -sv ~/dotfiles/.gitconfig ~ sets up symbolic link

vim

  • ln -sv ~/dotfiles/.vimrc ~/.vimrc
  •   https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim```
  - useful link for [vim plug](https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug)

nvim

  • mkdir ~/dotfiles/nvim
  • mkdir ~/.config
  • ln -sv ~/dotfiles/nvim ~/.config/
  • mv .zshrc dotfiles
  • ln -sv ~/dotfiles/.zshrc ~/.zshrc
  • add to .zshrc
if type nvim > /dev/null 2>&1; then
  alias vim='nvim'
fi
  • curl -fLo ~/.local/share/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim to download vimplug
  • look at init.vim file for neovim setup (has brief documentation as well)
    • note :so % inside nvim sources init.vim file

vim-tmux integration

  • brew install tmux
  • add tmux plugin to zshrc
  • basics learned here and here
  • check out the hotkeys in oh-my-zsh
  • plug 'christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator' in init.vim
  • after making .tmux.conf file, run ln -sv ~/dotfiles/.tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf
  • use this for .tmux.conf to incorporate vim here
  • to source the file, go into tmux and reach command prompt (via C-b :) and type source-file ~/.tmux.conf

vim-tmux integration on mac Terminal

  • brew install tmux
  • plug 'christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator' in .vimrc
  • after making .tmux.conf file, run ln -sv ~/dotfiles/.tmux.conf ~/.tmux.conf
  • use this for .tmux.conf to incorporate vim here
  • to source the file, go into tmux and reach command prompt (via C-b :) and type source-file ~/.tmux.conf

Latex

  • brew cask install basictex
    • The alternate option is mactex but I want to use vim as my editor so I don't need all the extra stuff (latex ide, etc.) that this installs
  • when missing a package (say for example, missing hyphenat.sty), run sudo tlmgr install hyphenat or whatever package it is in particular, tlmgr is texlive manager

vimtex

R

  • brew cask install xquartz
  • install R and Rstudio from internet

Java

Jetbrains

  • Get the jetbrains suite using a college email!
  • Download ideavim plugin and enable it
  • Write .ideavimrc
  • Inside editor, hit : and write source ~/.ideavimrc to source the file
  • Update Ctrl+R command to be IDE not vim
  • Make sure to change codestyle
  • Not sure if I like vim in Jetbrains; I think if you want vim, just use vim!

MacVim for C++ competitive programming

  • CONCEPT: MacVim uses vim, I have set up terminal to use neovim
  • continue to use vimplug, but run the vim command given on https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug
  • also, start switching to jj escape rather than jk escape
  • the defaults written in using the .macos script still maintain
  • symlink a .gvimrc file
  • set in System Preferences that function keys have standard functionality (helpful for building/running files)
  • set a gvimrc.custom.after to take care of reset gui variables
  • set up bits/stdc.h -> https://github.com/tekfyl/bits-stdc-.h-for-mac

Setting up Conda & Tensorflow (updated version):

JHU

MARCC (SSH)

  • Filezilla
  • to start up python, command module load python, negative sign ahead of module load (ml) removes it
  • to start up anaconda, ml anaconda

Other Apps

  • Mathematica
  • Matlab
    • MATLAB (student license, university affiliated) - userpath('Users/kesavan/Matlab'), since default is inside documents
  • Zotero
  • Install dynalist for organizing work/tasks

Google Cloud

Github Pro Student Pack

https://education.github.com/pack/offers?sort=popularity&tag=All

  • HazeOver is an option, but I didn't like it so much

Fonts

Misc Apps

TODO

  • git config - fancier
  • git ignore - detailed
  • Node (npm)
  • LSP + autocompletion

Some Potentially Useful Gists/Repos