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Setting Up macOS Catalina

System Preferences > General

  • Appearance: Auto
  • Accent color: Green
  • Sidebar icon size: Large

To restore full screen windows:

  • Uncheck: Close windows when quitting an app

System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver

  • Catalina: Dynamic

System Preferences > Dock

  • Magnification: Max

For Command + N and Command + T to always work as expected:

  • Prefer tabs when opening documents: Manually

System Preferences > Mission Control

To switch display off while rendering:

  • Hot Corners > bottom-left: Put Display to Sleep

System Preferences > Siri

  • Keyboard Shortcut: Press Fn (Function) Space
  • Keyboard Shortcut: Hold Command Space
  • Language: Russian
  • Siri Voice: Female
  • Voice Feedback: Off
  • Uncheck: Show Siri in menu bar

For MacBook Pro 15":

  • Listen for "Привет, Siri"
  • Allow Siri when locked

System Preferences > Notifications

Do Not Disturb panel:

  • From 22:00 to 08:00
  • When the display is sleeping

System Preferences > Internet accounts

Add email accounts.

System Preferences > Touch ID

  • Add right index, right thumb, and left index fingers.

System Preferences > User & Groups

Current User panel:

  • Drag & Drop a picture to change
  • Click the lock to make changes

Guest User panel:

  • Uncheck: Allow guests to login to this computer

Login Options panel:

  • Show fast user switching menu as: Account Name

System Preferences > Security & Privacy

General tab:

To quickly switch display back on without a password:

  • Require password 5 seconds after sleep or screen saver begins

System Preferences > Network

Select the correct network and:

  • Automatically join this network

System Preferences > Sound

  • Show volume in menu bar

System Preferences > Printers & Scanners

Setup printers.

System Preferences > Keyboard

Keyboard tab:

  • Key Repeat: Fast
  • Delay Until Repeat: Short
  • Turn keyboard backlight off after: 10 secs of inactivity
  • Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar

To use function keys in VS Code and MC:

  • Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys

For MacBook Pro 15":

  • Touch Bar shows: App Controls + Show control strip
  • Press Fn key to: Expand Control Strip
  • Customize control strip: Volume Slider, Play/Pause, Mute, Screen Lock

Note: to use functional keys in some applications, add them in Shortcuts tab > Function Keys panel (see below).

Text tab:

  • Spelling: Set Up...

Input Sources tab:

  • U.S.
  • Canadian French - CSA
  • Ukrainian - PC
  • Polish - Pro
  • Russian - PC

Shortcuts tab > Input Sources panel:

  • Select the previous input source: ^Space

Shortcuts tab > Mission Control panel:

  • Uncheck: Show Desktop: F11

For MacBook Pro 15":

Shortcuts tab > Function Keys panel:

  • Add: Terminal
  • Add: Visual Studio Code
  • Add: Blender
  • Add: /System/Library/Frameworks/Tk.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/Wish.app
  • Add: /usr/local/Cellar/git/<VERSION>/share/git-gui/lib/Git Gui.app

Note: press Command + Shift + . to show hidden files in the open file dialog.

To use keyboard in dialogs:

  • Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls

Dictation tab:

  • Dictation: On
  • Language: Add Language...

System Preferences > Trackpad

Point & Click tab:

  • Tap to click
  • Tracking speed: 3/4

System Preferences > Displays

Display tab:

  • Resolution: Scaled
  • Larger Text

Night Shift tab:

  • Schedule: Sunset to Sunrise

System Preferences > Energy Saver

Power Adapter tab:

To switch display off while rendering:

  • Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off

System Preferences > Date & Time

Clock tab:

  • Date options: Show date

System Preferences > Sharing

  • Computer Name

System Preferences > Time Machine

  • Show Time Machine in menu bar

Options dialog:

  • Exclude these items: ~/tmp

System Preferences > Language & Region

At the very end, remove all the languages but English (US)

Desktop Preferences

  • Right Click > Use Stacks

Keep on Dock:

  • Calculator
  • Terminal

Remove from Dock:

  • Siri
  • Contacts
  • Pages
  • Numbers
  • Keynote
  • System Preferences
  • Apple TV
  • Podcasts
  • App Store

Battery status in menu bar:

  • Show percentage

Finder Preferences

  • Right click on Documents > Add to Dock
  • Right click on Desktop > Add to Dock
  • Go > Computer, File > Add to sidebar
  • Go > Home, File > Add to sidebar
  • Press Command + Shift + Period to show the hidden files

Safari Preferences

General tab:

  • Safari opens with: All windows from last session
  • New windows open with: Top Sites
  • New tabs open with: Top Sites

Advanced tab:

For Responsive Design Mode (Control + Command + R):

  • Show Develop menu in menu bar

To always show Tab Bar with pinned tabs:

  • Open a new window: Command + N
  • View > Show Tab Bar

To show link URL:

  • View > Show Status Bar

The options will persist across the Safari reloads.

Dictionary Preferences

  • Uncheck: British
  • Uncheck: British Thesaurus
  • French
  • French-English
  • Russian
  • Russian-English

Wikipedia Languages:

  • English
  • Fraçais
  • Polski
  • Русский
  • Українська

App Store Applications

  • XCode

Homebrew Cask Applications

Homebrew installation (see http://brew.sh):

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

To install all Cask applications:

brew cask install firefox google-chrome adoptopenjdk docker meld minikube osxfuse virtualbox visual-studio-code wireshark xquartz blender gimp inkscape vlc viscosity

General Casks:

  • Firefox (browser): firefox
  • Google Chrome (browser): google-chrome

Casks for Development:

  • Adopt OpenJDK (for Closure compiler): adoptopenjdk
  • Docker: docker
  • Git GUI Merge Tool: meld
  • Minikube (local Kubernetes): minikube
  • FUSE for macOS (for sshfs): osxfuse
  • Oracle VirtualBox (virtual machine hypervisor): virtualbox
  • Visual Studio Code IDE (vscode): visual-studio-code
  • Network traffic analyzer: wireshark
  • XQuartz (X11 Server): xquartz

Graphics Casks:

  • Blender (3D graphics): blender
  • GIMP (raster graphics): gimp
  • Inkscape (vector graphics): inkscape
  • VLC Media Player: vlc

Other Casks:

  • OpenVPN Client: viscosity

Homebrew Applications

Homebrew installation (see http://brew.sh):

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

To install all applications:

brew install aspell gawk mc p7zip watch wget zsh-completions buildifier clang-format cloc closure-compiler cmake git go htop kubernetes-cli kubernetes-helm python rust shfmt sshfs wireshark ffmpeg imagemagick potrace az awscli

brew tap derailed/k9s && brew install k9s

General formulas:

  • Spell Checker: aspell
  • GNU AWK: gawk
  • Midnight Commander (File Manager): mc
  • 7zip: p7zip
  • Execute a Program Periodically: watch
  • Network Downloader: wget
  • Completions for zsh: szh-completions

Formulas for Development:

  • Bazel Files Formatter: buildifier
  • C/C++ Language Formatter: clang-format
  • Count Lines of Code: cloc
  • Google Javascript Compiler: closure-compiler
  • CMake Build System: cmake
  • Version Control System: git
  • Go Language: go
  • Interactive Process Viewer: htop
  • Kubernetes Cluster CLI: brew tap derailed/k9s && brew install k9s
  • Kubernetes kubectl Tool: kubernetes-cli
  • Kubernetes Package Manager: kubernetes-helm
  • Python Version 3: python
  • Rust Language: rust
  • Shell Language Formatter: shfmt
  • SSH File System: sshfs
  • Network Traffic Analyzer: wireshark

Graphics formulas:

  • Video Convertor: ffmpeg
  • Batch Image Manipulation: imagemagick
  • Image Tracing Tool: potrace

Cloud formulas:

  • Azure CLI: az
  • Amazon CLI: awscli

To fix the "invalid object doesn't have additional properties" error:

rm /usr/local/bin/kubectl
brew link --overwrite kubernetes-cli

Visual Studio Code (vscode)

To install VS Code:

brew cask install visual-studio-code

Extensions to install:

  • Bazel
  • C/C++
  • CMake
  • Code Spell Checker
  • CodeLLDB
  • Docker
  • Edit csv
  • GitLens
  • hide-gitignored
  • Kubernetes
  • Markdown All in One
  • Markdownlint
  • Python
  • Rainbow CSV
  • Rust (rls)
  • shell-format
  • vscode-proto3
  • vscode-lua
  • YAML

Settings:

{
    "files.autoSave": "afterDelay",
    "files.autoSaveDelay": 100,
    "editor.dragAndDrop": false,
    "editor.rulers": [72, 100],
    "editor.fontSize": 16,
    "editor.renderWhitespace": "boundary",
    "C_Cpp.clang_format_style": "Google",
    "python.pythonPath": "/usr/local/bin/python3",
    "zenMode.centerLayout": false,
    "window.zoomLevel": 1,
    "terminal.integrated.scrollback": 10000,
    "editor.wordWrap": "on",
    "C_Cpp.clang_format_fallbackStyle": "LLVM",
}

Keyboard shortcuts:

[
    {
        "key": "shift+cmd+a",
        "command": "workbench.action.tasks.test"
    }
]

VS Code also requires few Homebrew applications to be installed:

brew install buildifier clang-format git python shfmt

To install pylint:

sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install pylint

Terminal Preferences

Profiles tab:

  • Select Homebrew panel and click Default

Text tab:

  • Font > Change... > Size: 18pt

Window tab:

  • Rows: 43
  • Scrollback: Limit number of rows to: 10000

Shell tab:

  • When the shell exits: Close if the shell exited cleanly

Keyboard tab:

  • Use Option as Meta key
  • Double click F11 key to edit > Key: F1 Modifier: Shift
  • Repeat for F12-F20 keys

Terminal Profiles

File ~/.zshrc:

alias ll="ls -GFhla"
alias ls="ls -GFha"
alias mc="mc -d -S gotar"
alias mcedit="mcedit -d -S gotar"
alias top="top -o cpu" # for macOS

export PATH="${HOME}/bin:/usr/local/sbin:${PATH}"
export EDITOR="mcedit"
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"

fpath=(/usr/local/share/zsh-completions $fpath)
autoload -Uz compinit
compinit

Midnight Commander (mc) Preferences

Ubuntu: Options > Configuration:

  • Use internal edit

Options > Layout:

  • Uncheck: Menubar visible
  • Uncheck: Hintbar visible

Options > Confirmation...:

  • Uncheck: Confirmation|Exit

Options > Appearance:

  • Skin: gotar

Options > Display bits:

  • Input / display codepage: UTF-8

Editor > Options > General:

  • Uncheck: Confirm before saving

git Preferences

git config --global user.name "Andriy Berestovskyy"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

SSH Preferences

  • Generate SSH key pair: ssh-keygen -C a@hostname
  • To use for some hosts different user name add to .ssh/config the following:
Host host.com
    User name

GitHub Preferences

  • Generate SSH key pair as described above.
  • Open https://github.com
  • Select Settings > SSH and GPG keys then New SSH key
  • Dump public key: 
    cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
  • Paste the key into GitHub.

Mail Preferences

Composing tab:

  • Message Format: Plain Text

Fonts & Colors tab:

  • Font size: 14

Docker Installation and Preferences

Install Docker:

brew cask install docker

Docker Preferences > Advanced

  • Memory: 8GB
  • Swap: 4GB

Symbolic Links Installation

cd && ln -s /usr/local
cd && ln -s /usr/local/etc
cd && ln -s Library/Fonts
cd && mkdir tmp
cd ~/Desktop && ln -s ../tmp
cd ~/Documents && ln -s ../tmp
cd ~/Downloads && ln -s ../tmp
sudo chmod g-w /usr/local/share

Photos Preferences

iCloud tab:

  • iCloud Photos
  • Optimize Mac Storage

Preview Preferences

Images tab:

  • Open all files in one window

Tools Installation

  • TODO: tools repo: copy try, passwordless to ~/bin