meta-laptop

Automated installation of laptop script and dotfiles

What's included?

1. thoughtbot/dotfiles
2. rodrigobdz/dotfiles-local
3. thoughtbot/laptop

Requirements

• Git

Usage

1. Download script

   curl --remote-name https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rodrigobdz/meta-laptop/main/meta-laptop.sh

2. Execute script

   sh meta-laptop.sh 2>&1 | tee ~/meta-laptop.log

   To add your own dotfiles-local set and prepend env variable GITHUB_USER to the previous command.

   GITHUB_USER=rodrigobdz sh meta-laptop.sh 2>&1 | tee ~/meta-laptop.log

3. Optionally, review log

   less ~/meta-laptop.log

4. Remove asdf

   rm -rf ~/.asdf*

5. Remove tpope/vim-rails and tpope/vim-rake from ~/.vimrc.bundles because vim-plug doesn't offer an uninstall command to be used in vimrc.bundles.local, for instance.

6. Laptop script is known to fail in this LOC. Continue with laptop.local.

7. Manually install: VSCode, Signal, Zoom, SourceTree, Texifier.

8. iTerm2: Make iTerm Default Term and Install Shell Integration.

9. VSCode: Sign and Turn on Settings Sync

10. Alfred: Set preferences folder to folder with Alfred.alfredpreferences

11. Sublime: Install package control using command palette and then restore preferences using Dropbox/config/Sublime/INSTRUCTIONS.md

12. fish: Install abbreviations using export_abbreviations.fish script from backup

13. SourceTree: Install custom actions from config/sourcetree folder. Also link stree binary using:

    sudo ln -s /Applications/Sourcetree.app/Contents/Resources/stree /usr/local/bin/stree

14. npm: Check if installed, otherwise, install with brew install node and disable npm_up in up-mac

15. Fonts: Install Fura Powerline and Fira Code

    1. Set iTerm2's font in profile > text to Fira Mono/Fura Powerline to support Powerline font
    2. Set Fira Code size 11 to diff font in SourceTree's preferences.

16. Restore backup from Time Machine

17. Trackpad:

    1. Use four fingers instead of three for gestures in Trackpad settings.
    2. Enable dragging with three fingers in System Preferences > Accessibility > Pointer Control > Mouse & Trackpad > Trackpad options

Credits

• minimal-readme - Minimal readme template

License

MIT © rodrigobdz.