Each time I set up a Mac, I want to enable quitting Finder:
$ defaults write com.apple.Finder QuitMenuItem -bool YES
You won’t be able to quit Finder immediately, so kill it manually:
$ killall Finder
It’ll reopen but you can then command+tab over to it and command+q to exit.
I used to use defaults write
to change the key repeat rate, but I found the built-in keyboard settings can do this just fine:
To take nice screenshots like this, hit Cmd+Shift+4 then space to make it window screenshot mode and click on the window.
I use Homebrew to install fish, but it doesn’t automatically add it to /etc/shells
. Here’s the fix:
$ which fish | sudo tee -a /etc/shells
$ chsh -s $(which fish)
There’s more to MacOS: apps I use like Karabiner-Elements and Rectangle, and the Brew package manager. But this is a start!