Dotfiles

Structure

bin — custom scripts
home — files that are symlinked to $HOME directory
terminal — terminal config

Installation

Install XCode via the macOS App Store
Accept XCode license agreement

curl --silent https://github.com/ad-si/dotfiles/raw/master/install.sh | bash

Attention: The user must have sudo rights to install dependencies

Manual Steps

Copy all relevant files from backup to new Machine. (Check out [./bin/backup] for a list of all files.)

MacOS

This is written for Macs with a M1 chip. Some changes must be made for Macs with an Intel chip. E.g. Replace /opt/homebrew/bin with /usr/local/bin.

System Preferences

Invert scroll direction
General
- [x] Automatically hide and show the menu bar
- [x] Show scroll bars: When scrolling
Date & Time: Change date and time preferences
- Deactivate automatic setting of time zone by location
- Change time zone to UTC: sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime or sudo systemsetup -settimezone GMT
- [x] Display the time with seconds
- [x] Use a 24-hour clock
- [x] Show the day of the week
- [x] Show date
Language & Region
- Preferred languages: English (US)
- First day of the week: Monday
- Calendar: ISO 8601
- Temperature: Celsius
- Advanced:
- General:
  - Grouping: Space
  - Decimal: .
  - Measurement: Metric
- Dates:
  - Short: y-MM-dd
  - Medium: y-MM-dd
  - Long: y-MM-dd
  - Full: y-MM-dd, D', W'w, EEEE
- Times:
  - Short: HH:mmZZZZZ
  - Medium: HH:mm:ssZZZZZ
  - Long: HH:mm:ssZZZZZ
  - Full: HH:mm:ss.SSSZZZZZ
Displays:
- Change primary display
Keyboard
- Keyboard
- Key Repeat: Fast
- Delay Until Repeat: Short
- Text
- Disable
  - Correct spelling automatically
  - Capitalize words automatically
  - Add period with double-space
  - Use smart quotes and dashes
- Shortcuts
- [x] Show Spotlight search "⌥ Space"
- Overwrite default shortcuts
- Input Sources
- Use "ABC - Extended" keyboard layout to have correct direct output of "\~" and "`"
- Delete all other input sources
- Modifier Keys
- Remap Caps Lock key to CTRL
Mission Control > Hot Corners
- Top Left: Put Display to Sleep Launchpad
- Top Right: -
- Bottom Left: Desktop
- Bottom Right: Mission Control
Calendar:
- Start week on: Monday
- Scroll in week view by: Week, Stop on Today
Finder
- Preferences
- Show nothing on the Desktop
- New Finder windows show \<username>
- Sidebar: Show Applications, Desktop, Downloads, Home, iCloud Drive, All Locations, Tags
- Advanced:
  - [x] Show all filename extensions
  - [x] Show warning before removing from iCloud Drive
  - [x] Show warning before emptying the Trash
  - [x] Remove items from the Trash after 30 days
  - When performing a search: Search the Current Folder
- Sort directories in "Favorites" list

Scripts

Jxa macOS automation scripts are symlinked from ~/dotfiles/scripts to ~/Library/Scripts and are displayed in the scripts editor submenu in the menu bar. (Enable via Script Editor.app > Preferences > General > Show Script menu in menu bar) Add subdirectories with app names for app specific scripts.

The symlink-dotfiles script must be run after adding new scripts.

Script Libraries

Script libraries are symlinked from ~/dotfiles/script-libraries to ~/Library/Script Libraries/dotfiles and can be imported like this:

const tools = Library('dotfiles/tools')

General

Set GitHub API token for Homebrew
Install TaskLite
Printer driver software
Install TexLive packages after installation of MacTeX
Run npm install in the dotfiles directory
Add Hunspell dictionaries after installation (e.g. https://github.com/titoBouzout/Dictionaries to ~/dotfiles/dictionaries or to ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages)
Set default apps for file types with https://github.com/moretension/duti
Install https://github.com/purescript/psc-package
Install https://github.com/jdek/openwith
Install and setup Brother QL-810W label printer
Install languages for Tesseract (e.g. https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_best/blob/master/deu.traineddata?raw=true) to /usr/local/Cellar/tesseract/4.0.0/share/tessdata

Brave

Go to brave://sync
Join Sync Chain

Installed extensions should then include Midnight Lizard, Automatric Metric Conversion, …

Firefox

Login to Firefox Sync
Do not print headers, footers, and margins.

Dropbox

iTerm

General > Preferences:

[x] Load preferences from a custom folder or URL: ~/dotfiles/terminal
[x] Save changes to folder when iTerm2 quits

Gopass

Clone https://github.com/ad-si/password-store with GitHub CLI: gh repo clone ad-si/password-store and move to ~/.password-store.
If password on gpg key => brew install pinentry-mac.

Then add to gpg-agent config (skip if .gnupg was copied from backup):

echo "pinentry-program /opt/homebrew/bin/pinentry-mac" \
  >> ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf

Restart shell afterwards.
gopass fsck

Sublime Text

Copy preferences from backup
Activate Sublime Text gopass sublimetext.com/license-key
Install Package Control (will then automatically load all packages from the backup)

Sublime Merge

Copy preferences from backup
Enter license from Email

Visual Studio Code

Thunderbird

Copy backup to ~/Library/Thunderbird

Element

Discord

Logitech

Log into Logitech Options account to sync mouse settings
- Scroll direction Natural
Logitech Options config
Activate the Logitech Options Daemon at System Preferences → Security & Privacy → Accessibility

Spotify

Stream quality: Very High
Download: Very High

Slack

Add all accounts

Logic Pro X

Download all additional content

TODO

Use https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle
Backup fish history
Disable swipe history navigation in Brave: defaults write com.brave.Browser AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool FALSE
Backup ngrok config
Install Stack and HLS with ghcup

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