tgallacher/ansible-macbook-setup

🐍💻 Ansible playbook to configure and manage my Mac dev set up.

ansible-macbook-setup's Issues

Add note on how to fix npm scripts when using nvm

Problem

When running npm run .. or yarn .. you get a npm binary warning, and sometimes the script fails to run. This is to do with how nvm shims out node installs.

Solution

Based on nodenv/nodenv#108

npm config set scripts-prepend-node-path auto

Re-map spotlight keyboard shortcut

• Need to change away from ⌘+space to ⌘+⇧+space (this is so we can reassign to Alfred app)

Configure osx menu bar

• Show bluetooth menu
• ?

Update Readme to reflect new pyenv setup

Add support for configuring osx finder

Need to be able to configure:

• items in the sidebar
• set the default view options (e.g. list); show/hide columns

Fix vscode extension var name

The defaults/vscode.yml file currently uses the Ansible role variable name, visual_studio_code_extensions, instead of the custom variable name, vscode_install_extensions.

As a result, no extensions are installed when running this.

Add ability to configure Alfred app

Investigate ability to be able to set up and configure Alfred app.

Create default SSH key-pair

Potentially setup a default SSH key-pair (~/.ssh/id_rsa{,.pub})

Notes

• Would need email input for this

Set up iTerm show/hide keyboard shortcut

• Assign to ⌥ + ↩︎

Set Brave Browser as the default browser

• Also check if there is an easy way to configure certain parts of the browser as well, e.g. hide the rewards icon in the address bar.

Add support to customise osx Dock

Configure:

• scale / magnification
• auto-hide
• contents of Dock (?)

Enable "Keyboard Navigation"

Need to automatically set "keyboard navigation" (i.e. tabs).

This setting is located under the UI: System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts (tab)> checkbox at bottom

Update keyboard mappings

Switch to "Natural Text" preset in the item profile for being able to quickly set up jumping around by word boundary using the option+arrow keys.

See: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/293988 for more details of how

NB: Currently this is manually done by trying to automate remapping certain keys in the profile, but it doesn't appear to be transferrable easily across machines.

Configure osx Trackpad settings

Configure:

• scroll direction
• gesture support enabled/disabled