mac-provision

Provision a new Mac and/or manage an existing one.

TODO

• Add karabininer config (~/.config/karabiner/karabiner.json)

PREREQUISITES

• git

PROVISION

To provision a new Mac:

$ git clone git@github.com:ljohnston/mac-provision.git ~/.mac-provision
$ cd ~/.mac-provision
$ bin/provision
$ ansible-playbook -i playbooks/inventory playbooks/main.yml --ask-become-pass

PRE- OR POST- PROVISION MANUAL UPDATES

Configure keyboard modifier keys:

Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts... > Modifier Keys

• Caps Lock > Control
• Control > Caps Lock

May need to do this for multiple keyboards.

POST-PROVISION MANUAL UPDATES

iTerm

The mac-provision project includes config file for iTerm. It can't, however, update the iTerm preference needed to read/write the config file.

iTerm > Preferences > General > Preferences - Check "Load preferences from a custom folder or URL" - Enter path as "~/.iterm" - Check "Save changes to folder when iTerm2 quits"

Keyboard shortcuts

NOTE: If using the custom config file described above, these shortcuts should already be accounted for.

• Map session paste history to Cmd-Ctrl-h (must map a "Select Menu Item...") Default is Cmd-Shift-h, which we need to remap so as not to collide with below mappings
• Map split vertically with current profile to Cmd-Ctrl-l (must map via "Select Menu Item...")
• Map split horizontally with current profile to Cmd-Ctrl-j (must map via "Select Menu Item...")
• Map select pane above to Cmd-Shift-k
• Map select pane below to Cmd-Shift-j
• Map select pane left to Cmd-Shift-h
• Map select pane right to Cmd-Shift-l

Browsers

In all browsers, I use an awesome extension called "surfingkeys", which provides vim-like features inside the browser. There are a number of browser customizations that can be made to improve the user experience when using surfingkeys. See comments in the .vim README for more info.

There are a number of non-surfingkeys related customizations, however, that I like, described here.

Vivaldi

• disable password manager
• home page: google.com
• startup with: homepage
• new session: open homepage
• new tabs: open homepage
• new tab position: after active tab
• downloads: don't open panel automatically

UPDATES

To modify configuration:

- Edit playbooks/base/tasks/main.yaml
$ ansible-playbook -i playbooks/inventory playbooks/main.yml --ask-become-pass