Using systemd user units to react to sleep/suspend

Using systemd to manage user-level services is great. There’s a few caveats though, and one of them is that there’s no easy way to depend on system level units. That’s...

Using systemd as cron

Tradionally, *nix users are familiar (or maybe not so much) with cron syntax, whereas you define applications to be run at specific schedules. What most people don’t know is that...

Configuring systemd-networkd on Debian

By default, Debian uses /etc/network/interfaces file to manage your network interfaces by means of ifup and ifdown commands. If you’re not happy with it, you can choose to use NetworkManager...

Enabling C cedilla (ç) on GNOME - updated way

I use an english keyboard but also happen to type in Portuguese. To type in accents, a standard way is adding a new keyboard source (English alt. intl.) and use...

Synchronizing password changes on Gnome-Keyring

I have a good habit of changing my system password every 3 months. However, recently I noticed that when I changed it on GNOME interface, it didn’t reflect on Gnome...