New Apple Mac Cheat Sheet
This is a cheat sheet for Linux users who have just unwrapped a new Mac.
Brew or Otherwise
One dilemma you’ll face is software can be installed by Brew or downloaded. It seems there is quite the difference at times so choose your poison wisely.
Visual Studio Code
Extensions:
- Turn on Auto-Save
- Rust-Analyzer
- brew install libiconv
- brew install cairo
Network
Change Mac hostname
Avoid Process completed after closing terminals.
In Terminal Preferences, in Profiles pane select the Profile you use (should say “default” under it’s name), select sub-pane Shell and change «When the shell exits:» to «Close if the shell exited cleanly». It will not hide the [Process completed] message, but will close the window if exit code was successful.
Add
.composer/vendor/bin to path
Essentials
Anydesk
ZSH
Oh My
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"Slack
Chrome
PhpStorm
Keyboard Mappings
Remap Control and the Windows key:
For more advanced mappings, try Karabiner-Elements
Remap Alt Tab
Don’t. Just use command tab.
Remap Control-C / Control V
Don’t. Use Command-C / Command V.
Change Mouse Orientation
It’s called Natural Scrolling in Settings. Turn it off.
Remap End Key
TBA
Set default programs to Chrome
Do it in Chrome
Remap control right arrow for scrolling over words
TBA