.dotfiles

Dotfiles for my Mac.

Setup a new Mac

• Update Apple Software: sudo softwareupdate -i -a

• Install Dev Tools: xcode-select --install

• Configure iCloud and Internet Account Settings in System Preferences

  • iCloud: Disable all but "Notes" and "Find My Mac"

  • Google: Disable all but "Contacts"

• Map Caps Lock to Esc

• Open Finder once to create its configuration

• On 10.13+: Open Mac App Store to Sign-In (Due to a bug in mas)

• Clone this repo and exec setup

  # clone this repo & cd into it
  git clone https://github.com/hellerphilipp/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles && cd ~/.dotfiles
  
  # make it executable & run it
  chmod +x *.sh && ./setup.sh
  

• Install Vim plugins: :PlugInstall

• Install boring.notch

• Restart the system

• Configure display scaling

• Enable Finder integrations under System Preferences > Extensions

• Disable Guest User under System Preferences > Users & Groups

• Setup applications

  • Alfred

  • Scroll reverser

    • App -> Start at login
    • Scrolling -> only reverse mouse

  • CoconutBattery

  • Rocket

  • Rectangle

  • OpenInTerminal

  • Ice

  • MonitorControl

  • Spotify

    • Setup Local Files

    • Set stream quality

• Configure Finder sidebar icons

• Configure keys

• SSH keys with secretive

• Generate a new SSH key and add it to the ssh-agent

• Generate a new GPG key

• Associate the new SSH and GPG keys GitHub

  • Copy SSH key

    # Copy the public key from the file
    pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

  • Copy GPG key

    # List GPG keys
    gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format LONG
    
    # Make Git sign commits by default
    git config --global user.signingkey <key-ID>
    git config --global commit.gpgsign true
    
    # Copy key to clipboard
    gpg --armor --export <key-ID> | pbcopy

Keep the repo up to date

New Brews installed

1. Run brew bundle dump inside of the repo's root directory to update the Brewfile

Track new configuration files

Source: orrsella/dotfiles

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To add a new .file (or any other config file for that matter):

1. Copy the existing file to anywhere in the repo, chose the most logical path (the place you save the file in the repo doesn't have to correspond to the actual real path on the system where the original file is – chose whatever's most convenient for you). It makes sense to group multiple related files into appropriately named folders. File names must be identical to the actual ones on the system.

2. Add a new entry to the links file. The format is:

/path/on/system/.my-file1, /path/in/repo/.my-file1
/path/on/system/with\ space/.my-file2 /path/in/repo/.my-file2

See links for more details and examples.