Tweak Trackpad
The settings is at System Preferences -> Trackpad.
- Enable “Tap to click” to make Trackpad less noisy at “Point & Click” tab.
- Uncheck “Scroll direction: Natural” at “Scroll & Zoom” tab.
- So when we move two figures down in the trackpad, the page goes down. <!– - Tap three fingers to look up in dictionary & data detectors.
- Tap two fingers for right click: open context menu. –>
Tweak Dock
Go to System Preference -> Dock: - Enable Automatically show and hide Dock - Disable Show recent applications in Dock
Remove Apps from Dock:
- We can use Spotlight(Cmd+Space) to open any application instead of moving mouse and clicking the icon in the dock to open it, so usually it’s no much use to keep apps in the dock when not used.
- By default, Apples shows a lot of its apps in the Dock, remove them from the Dock: right click on the icon in the Dock, click Options -> unselect “Keep in Dock”
Move Docker on the right side
- By default dock shows at the bottom, so it will auto show a lot by accident.
- Go to System Preferences > Dock and choose either Left or Right for Position on Screen
Tweak Touch Bar
Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Customize Control Strip, drag the buttons we want to to the Touch Bar below the display, drap tge buttons we don’t want upward and out of the Touch Bar.
Enable Touch ID
- Preferences > Touch ID
- Then we can use touch id instead of manually type password
- Use Touch ID for sudo
- vi nano /etc/pam.d/sudo
- add “auth sufficient pam_tid.so” to the top
Remove Siri from the Touch Bar
- System Preferences > Keyboard > Customize Control Strip
- Highlight the Siri button, click, and drag the Siri button upward and out of the Touch Bar
- Disable Siri at Preferences -> Siri
Turn off iCloud Drive
Mac backup files in desktip and Documents folder to iCloud, if we never use iCloud(for me, I use Google Drive to backup files), we can turn it off at System Preferences -> iCloud,
Also turn off “Photos” at System Preferences -> iCloud.
Preferences > General
- Turn on Dark Mode at System.
- Check “Automatically hide and show the menu bar”
- Change “Default web browser” to Chrome.
Turn screen corners into shortcuts
- Go to System Preferences -> Desktop & Screen Saver -> click on Screen Saver tab -> click on Hot Corner button at the bottom-right.
- Add “Put screen into Sleep” to the top right corner: this is useful when we are playing music, but want to put display into sleep right away to save battery.
Install apps downloaded from web:
- System Preferences > Security & Privacy -> at General tab, choose App Store and identified developers for Allow apps downloaded from.
