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A post-install script designed to fix all of the Yosemite annoyances. Currently working on a version for El Capitan and testing a menu system.

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OSX Settings, Applications and Configurations

Menu and Checklist installs are WIP.

The install.sh script can install the following:

Commandline Apps

Settings Changed

  • Keyboard Repeat Rate High
  • Animations turned off
  • Turned off fast user switching
  • Set default shell to zsh
  • Natural mouse scroll turned off
  • Right click on trackpad bottom right
  • Turned off "shake to locate cursor"
  • Default Shell set to zsh
  • Terminal.app set to Homebrew theme
  • Hostname set everywhere
  • Ability to press and hold keyboard keys turned back on
  • Screensaver password prompt now pops up immediately
  • Application run prompts disabled (commented out for security)
  • Printer app now quits after print jobs
  • Display battery percentage instead of time remaining
  • Allow tab wherever possible
  • Re-enabled zoom-scrolling (hold ctrl)
  • Disabled auto-correct
  • Force-enabled HiDPI display modes
  • Set default finder view to "details"
  • Grouped Expose apps once more
  • Expose and Mission Control animations sped up
  • Animations that can be turned off have been disabled
  • Dashboard disabled
  • Enabled display of volume icons on the desktop again
  • Turned off smart-quotes (interferes with code snippets)
  • Set default sorting of Activity Monitor to CPU usage
  • Set system to restart on freeze/hang
  • Unhide the ~/Library folder
  • Set Safari homepage to blank
  • Set keyboard repeat delay to the lowest value
  • Turn off iTunes device backup prompts
  • Expand save panel by default
  • Set Finder default to $HOME
  • Set screen capture location to desktop PNGs
  • Turn off Fast User Switching
  • Turn off ambient light sensor
  • Disable send and receive animations in Mail.app
  • Mail.app copied email addresses set to plain "foo@bar.com"
  • ⌘ + enter sends email in Mail.app
  • Removed Mail.app from dock
  • Removed Maps.app from dock
  • Removed iTunes from dock
  • Removed Facetime.app from dock
  • Removed iBooks from dock

WORK ON THESE (NOT AUTOMATIC)

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A post-install script designed to fix all of the Yosemite annoyances. Currently working on a version for El Capitan and testing a menu system.

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