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Loskir's macOS setup guide

Setting up a new macbook can be annoying. Here's a list of setting that I change when configuring macOS.

Settings

General

  • Show scroll bars - when scrolling

Desktop

  • Screen saver - Hot corners - off

Dock and menu bar

  • Automatically hide and show - on
  • Show recent - off

Mission control

  • Automatically rearrange - off
  • When switching - off
  • Group windows - on

Keyboard

  • Key Repeat - fast
  • Delay - second shortest

Text

  • Correct spelling - off
  • Capitalize - off
  • Add period - off
  • Smart quotes - off

Shortcuts

  • Spotlight - off (for Raycast)
  • Input sources - select previous - ctrl+space
  • Screenshots - assign "clipboard" variants without ctrl (⌘⇧4 etc.)

Trackpad

  • Tracking speed - 5th from right
  • More gestures - swipe between pages - off
  • More gestures - expose - on

Battery

  • Slightly dim - off

Dock

  • Disable delay
  • Minimizer effect - suck in
  • Enable slow motion

General

  • Keyboard - support key repeat

Font Smoothing - off

Finder

Sidebar

  • home dir - on

Advanced

  • Show all extensions - on
  • Search - current folder
  • Folders on top - in windows - on

Telegram (swift ver)

General

  • Show calls tab - off
  • Show icon in menu bar - off
  • Force touch action - edit

Data and Storage

  • Storage limit - 5gb

Activity monitor

  • View - Update Frequency - Very often

Shell

Disable input source switch popup on Sonoma

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/UIKit.plist redesigned_text_cursor -dict-add Enabled -bool NO

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