samwinslow / workspace

My preferred MacOS and *nix system settings

workspace

My preferred MacOS and *nix system settings

Misc Preferences

System Preferences

• Keyboard
  • Shortcuts
    • Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls
• Dock & Menu Bar
  • Automatically hide and show the Dock
  • Bluetooth
    • Show in Menu Bar
  • Sounds
    • Show in Menu Bar: always
• Mission Control
  • Shortcut: Mouse Button 3
• Siri
  • Disable
• Notifications
  • All off except for communication apps
• Software Update
  • Disable automatic updates

Dock

• Finder
• Chrome
• Terminal
• VSCode
• Messages
• FaceTime
• WhatsApp / Slack / other workspace communication
• Zoom
• Spotify
• Note-taking apps
• System Preferences

System Defaults

Disable "Application quit unexpectedly" (report, reopen) dialogs: defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType none