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Hmm, `mise use -g docker-cli` works for me. `docker compose` is a bit trickier – it gets installed as `docker-cli-plugin-docker-compose`, but docker-cli doesn’t seem to pick it up. I’ve added a symlink as `docker-compose` for the time being.

Also using brew for casks, and I think there’s a couple tools I couldn’t install with mise (e.g. pngpaste and zbar for scanning QR codes from screenshots).

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FWIW you can replace pngpaste with a simple script: https://til.simonwillison.net/macos/impaste

Zbar seems to provide prebuilt binaries here https://linuxtv.org/downloads/zbar/binaries/ (haven't checked it myself)

Thanks for the docker tip!

> FWIW you can replace pngpaste with a simple script

Neat! Got curious if you can do that without a temp file, turns out you can:

  #!/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript
  
  ObjC.import("AppKit");
  $.NSFileHandle.fileHandleWithStandardOutput.writeData(
    $.NSPasteboard.generalPasteboard.dataForType("public.png"),
  );

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Edit:

> `docker compose` is a bit trickier

I’ve tweaked my setup a bit. This installs it as `docker-compose` without symlinking required:

  "github:docker/compose" = { version = "latest", rename_exe = "docker-compose" }

And also you can manually symlink it to the Docker plugins dir so `docker compose` works as well:

  DOCKER_CONFIG="${DOCKER_CONFIG:-$HOME/.docker}"
  mkdir -p "${DOCKER_CONFIG}/cli-plugins"
  ln -s "$(mise which docker-compose)" "${DOCKER_CONFIG}/cli-plugins/docker-compose"

There's the rename-exe option in mise.toml to rename the docker compose binary to `docker-compose`. I've used it on some machine, I think. Look it up in the docs, it doesn't take long to wire up.

Yep, I’ve ended up doing exactly that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501953

The default docker-compose definition comes from aqua:docker/compose though, which does not support rename_exe. You have to specify github:docker/compose instead.

doesn't aqua:docker/compose just work? it does for me

Nope :-( Just tried it again, it installs and is available in PATH as `docker-cli-plugin-docker-compose`, but `docker compose` says “unknown command”. For docker-cli to pick it up, it should be in $DOCKER_CONFIG/cli-plugins/docker-compose (~/.docker by default, though I use ~/.config/docker).

rename_exe doesn’t do anything on the aqua backend either (and isn’t a documented option). I’m on mise 2026.5.10 right now though so if you fixed something recently I might be missing out!

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