All configuration files and scripts for setting up a new macOS or Linux machine.

Check out phone.md for setup instructions on a new phone.

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

1. Install XCode via the macOS App Store
2. Accept XCode license agreement
3. cd ~ && git clone https://github.com/ad-si/dotfiles.git
4. cd dotfiles && ./install.sh
   Attention: The user must have sudo rights to install dependencies

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

• General

  • 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 (will error, but still work)
    • Display the time with seconds
    • Use a 24-hour clock
    • Show the day of the week
    • 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

• Appearance

  • Light Mode (Use Nightfall to switch between light and dark mode)
  • Show scroll bars: When scrolling
  • Click in the scroll bar to: Jump to the spot that's clicked

• Control Center

  • Battery: Show Percentage
  • Keyboard Brightness: Show in Control Center
  • Spotlight: Don't show in menu bar

• Desktop & Dock

  • Show suggested and recent apps in Dock: Off

  • Widgets

    • Default web browser: Brave

  • Windows

    • Tiled windows have margins: Off

  • Mission Control

    • Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use: Off
    • Hot Corners
      • Top Left: Put Display to Sleep Launchpad
      • Top Right: -
      • Bottom Left: Desktop
      • Bottom Right: Mission Control

• Displays:

  • Change primary display
  • Set resolution to "More Space"
  • Night Shift: Off

• Keyboard

  • Keyboard
    • Key Repeat: Fast
    • Delay Until Repeat: Short
    • Press 🌐 key to Start Dictation
    • Keyboard navigation ☑️
    • Keyboard Shortcuts
      • Launchpad & Dock
        • Turn Dock hiding on/off: Off
      • Display
        • Disable all
      • Input Sources
        • Select the previous input source: Off
      • Presenter Overlay
        • Disable all
      • Spotlight
        • Show Spotlight search "^ Space"
      • App shortcuts
      • Modifier Keys
        • Remap Caps Lock key to ^ Control
  • Text Input
    • Input Sources
      • Use "ABC - Extended" keyboard layout to have correct direct output of "~" and "`"
      • Delete all other input sources
      • Disable
        • Correct spelling automatically
        • Capitalize words automatically
        • Add period with double-space
        • Use smart quotes and dashes

• Open at Login

  • Brave
  • Calendar
  • Dropbox
  • Google Drive
  • Hammerspoon
  • iTerm
  • Slack
  • Spotify
  • Thunderbird
  • WhatsApp

• General:
  • Scroll in week view by: Week, Stop on Today
• Accounts: Add all accounts, but disable Mail for them
• Advanced:
  • Turn on time zone support
  • Show week numbers
• Enable notifications

• Preferences
  • Show nothing on the Desktop
  • New Finder windows show <username>
  • Sync Desktop & Documents folders
  • Sidebar:
    • Applications
    • Downloads
    • <username>
    • iCloud Drive
    • Desktop
    • Locations: All
    • Tags
  • Advanced:
    • Show all filename extensions
    • Show warning before removing from iCloud Drive
    • Show warning before emptying the Trash
    • Remove items from the Trash after 30 days
    • When performing a search: Search the Current Folder
• Sidebar:
  • Sort directories in "Favorites" section

General > Settings:

• Load preferences from a custom folder or URL: ~/dotfiles/terminal
• Save changes to folder when iTerm2 quits
• Set Fish as the default shell:

  echo /opt/homebrew/bin/fish | sudo tee -a /etc/shells
  chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/fish

  More details: https://fishshell.com/docs/current/#default-shell

• Deactivate all settings except:
  • Launch Hammerspoon at login
  • Show Menu Icon
• Enable Accessibility

• Download all additional content

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

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

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

const tools = Library('dotfiles/tools')

With descending priority:

• Set GitHub API token for Homebrew
• Install TaskLite
• Run npm install in the dotfiles directory
• Add Hunspell dictionaries after installation (e.g. https://github.com/titoBouzout/Dictionaries to ~/dotfiles/dictionaries)
• 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
• Printer driver software
  • Install and setup Brother QL-810W label printer

gh auth login

Is installed by Homebrew, but for the system Java wrappers to find openjdk, symlink it with:

sudo ln -sfn \
  /opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk/libexec/openjdk.jdk \
  /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/openjdk.jdk

1. Set Brave as default browser (Should pop up when opening Brave for the first time)
2. Go to Brave Sync
3. Join Sync Chain
4. Disable swipe history navigation: defaults write com.brave.Browser AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool FALSE
5. Set "Page zoom" to 90%

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

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

Sign in and enable sync for important directories. Especially Settings, which is needed for Sublime Text/Merge sync.

1. brew install pinentry-mac
2. 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

3. killall gpg-agent
4. Restart shell

1. Make sure GPG is set up correctly.
2. Clone https://github.com/ad-si/password-store with GitHub CLI: gh repo clone ad-si/password-store and move to ~/.password-store.
3. gopass fsck

• Activate installation
  • Get license key with gopass sublimetext.com/license-key
  • Apply under Help > Enter License
• Install Package Control (will then automatically install all packages from the synced list)
• Sync via Dropbox as described in https://packagecontrol.io/docs/syncing
• Set up GitHub Copilot: https://packagecontrol.io/packages/LSP-copilot#Setup
• Install additional dictionaries for spell checking:

  cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text/Packages/
  git clone https://github.com/titoBouzout/Dictionaries

• Activate installation
  • Get license key from Passwords app
  • Apply under Help > Enter License
• Sync via Dropbox as described in https://packagecontrol.io/docs/syncing

Sign in via GitHub to sync preferences.

Open app and enter license key from Passwords app.

Follow following instructions to migrate the data folder to the new computer: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer

Log in to home server synapse.feram.io.

Log in

Log in

Log in

• 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

• Stream quality: Very High
• Download: Very High

• Add all accounts

• sd - My script directory.

• iterm settings
• Setup git (via gh?)
• Use https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle
• Backup fish history
• Backup ngrok config
• Install Stack and HLS with ghcup
• Backup "$HOME/Library/Application Support/harper-ls/dictionary.txt"
• .aws directory