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This is a collection of tools I am using on my M1 Macbook Pro. Most of it is still a work in progress.
I am using the Yabai tiling window manager and skhd as hotkey daemon to replicate the setup I have on my Linux machines as much as i can, Alacritty as my terminal emulator, Powerlever10k as zsh theme and more. I also made a number of changes in the system setting to remove most of the annoying and/or useless macOS features.
System settings
Desktop & Dock
- Set Click wallpaper to reveal desktop to Only in Stage Manager
- Uncheck Show items On Desktop
- Remove all apps from the dock
- Set dock size to as small as possible
- Check Automatically hide the Dock
- Uncheck Animate opening applications
- Uncheck Show suggested and recent apps in the Dock
- Disable Widget completely
Notifications
- Disable all notifications when the screen is on and unlocked
- Keep notifications when screen is on and locked
Control Center
- Remove everything except Clock, WiFi and Battery indicators
- More changes will be done during the Menu Bar setup
Siri & Spotlight
Completely disable Siri, leave Spotlight unchanged, won't be using it anyway once RayCast is installed
RayCast
I use RayCast as an app launcher, although it can do way more things than just launch your apps, and if you're interested you can check the enormous amount of community plugins available.
Download and install RayCast, follow the tutorial if necessary.
- Disable Window Manager control
Homebrew
A package manager for MacOS. Does what it's supposed to do, most of the times.
Can be installed as a RayCast plugin and used by opening RayCast and typing brew, but personally i find myself using it from the terminal almost always.
- Download and install Homebrew
PS: I still have not looked but know there are (apparently) alternatives, in particular: MacPorts and pkgsrc.
Hidden Bar
Install Hidden Bar using Brew, it's an app that allows you to decide which icons you want to see and which icons you want to hide in your menu bar.
You will want to start this app at login.
Stats
Stats is an app for the Menu Bar that shows statistics about the hardware. CPU/GPU/RAM temps and usage, stuff like that.
I keep only the CPU temp and RAM usage in the bar and hid the rest using Hidden Bar.
You can install Stats using RayCast's plugins or using Homebrew: brew install --cask stats