my macOS dotfiles

Screenshots

Terminal (Alacritty)

### Browser (Qutebrowser)

### AltBrowser (Edge)

### Music (Spotify)

### Secrets (Bitwarden)

really great applications that I use

• Aerospace
  The best tiling window manager for MacOS https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace

• Sketchybar
  The highly configurable top bar https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar

• Sketchybar configuration
  https://github.com/bfpimentel/nixos.git
  a really good lua scripted Sketchybar configuration

Make sure to install lua: brew install lua
Modify .config/sketchybar/items/spaces.lua according to what spaces you have configured in aerospace.toml.
I added further hints about changing workspace definitions and icons in the spaces.lua file.

• brew
  A Package manager for MacOS that is needed/can be used to install great open source software like Aerospace.
  https://brew.sh/

• Required Font for Sketchybar
  font-space-mono-nerd-font

• alacritty
  A fast terminal that lets you disable decorations and activate blur/transparency https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty

• marta
  Great alternative to Finder which allows vim-style bindings. I "disable" the second pane for now by moving the separator 100% to the right. Does not search for configuration in .config, so I symlinked it like this:

ln -s ~/.config/marta/conf.marco "~/Library/Application Support/org.yanex.marta/conf.marco"

Change file browser to marta (not sure if it works yet though)
defaults write -g NSFileViewer -string org.yanex.marta

• borders
  see what window is in focus at the moment - it makes a colored border appear https://github.com/FelixKratz/JankyBorders

• brew packages
  see brew.txt

• spicetify
  allows to change the theme of Spotify - not yet happy with the theme
  spicetify config current_theme Dribbblish color_scheme catppuccin-mocha

• Wallpaper
  https://www.reddit.com/r/wallpapers/
  https://www.reddit.com/r/wallpapers/comments/1eibln5/abstract_circle_3840x2160/

Other information

• Shell
  zsh
  oh-my-zsh

• Browser
  qutebrowser - A great browser that lets you browse the internet via keyboard/vim controls https://qutebrowser.com/
  qutebrowser theme - not yet happy with the theme https://github.com/gicrisf/qute-city-lights

MacOS settings

I also changed a few settings in MacOS because the defaults interfere with this config

make Dock and the native MacOS bar auto-hide

Desktop & Dock - Autohide Dock can be here somewhere
Control Center - Enable menu bar autohide here

Hide Dock via cli:
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide -bool true && killall Dock

Make it only appear if you float over it with the mouse for 10 seconds (use 4 fingers up gesture to make it appear)
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 10000 && killall Dock

disable Dock bouncing of apps

defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool TRUE && killall Dock

disable desktop icons

having desktop icons is not very user-friendly together with tiling window managers and, be honest, it is cluttered most of the time anyways so it is recommended to disable them in "Desktop & Dock"

disable window animations

Run in terminal:
defaults write -g NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false

reduce motion (for native fullscreen functionality and maybe some more unnecessary animations)

• System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > Reduce motion

disable lots of MacOS keyboard shortcuts in the MacOS settings

• disable command+Q in MacOS system settings
• be ready to disable a few more, as I am unsure about what other shortcuts might collide

Move windows by dragging any part of the window (by holding ctrl+cmd)

Run in terminal:
defaults write -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture -bool true

Displays have separate Spaces

Enable this in MacOS settings "Desktop & dock" or else Sketchybar will not start. In general Aerospace recommends disabling this though.
Read about it here: https://nikitabobko.github.io/AeroSpace/guide#a-note-on-displays-have-separate-spaces

Sketchybar might work with the option being disabled in the future.
FelixKratz/SketchyBar#495