Provisioning Your Mac Machine

This page holds information about additional software and configuration for a clean OS X build.

Additional Software

Applications:

• iTerm2
• Visual Studio Code
• Gitkraken (if you are licensed for it)
• Microsoft Remote Desktop (from the App Store)
• Android Studio
• Xcode

Brew:

• tree

General Mac Config

The following modification of the default enviroment configuration allows you to navigate your Mac quickly and efficiently.

Finder

• Finder Preferences
  • General
    • Show Hard Disks, External Disks, CDs (etc), and Connected Servers
    • New Finder Window should open Home directory
  • Sidebar
    • Hide iCloud Drive
    • Show Home directory
  • Advanced
    • Check Show all file extensions
    • Check Keep folders on top when sorting by name
• View Options
  • Check Always open in colum view and Browse in column view
  • Modify Arrange By to Kind
  • Modify Sort By to Name

• Always Show Hidden Files

  Run in Terminal: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES

Config: Terminal

• Change Terminal shell to zsh: sudo chsh -s $(which zsh)
• Favorite theme: ?
• Default Window Size: 160 x 40

Config: ZSH & iTerm2

• Install oh-my-zsh for managing themes and plugins

  ~/> curl -L http://install.ohmyz.sh | sh

  This command will create the ~/.oh-my-zsh directory with all the necessary contents

• Import Agnoster theme to ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/ if it does not already exist

• Download Powerline Fonts, following the instructions from the readme for installation
• Change the following iTerm2 Preferences:
  • Appearance:
    • Tab Bar Location: bottom
      • Theme: Dark
    • Profiles:
      • Import zsh profile if you already have one
• Import .zshrc to the home directory