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Re: networkmanager hostname woes
From: |
Arun Isaac |
Subject: |
Re: networkmanager hostname woes |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 04:57:05 +0530 |
Thomas Danckaert writes:
> Hi Guix,
>
> since the change to networkmanager, I've been running into the
> following problem: when I connect to a wireless network using
> networkmanager, I can no longer start graphical applications
> (starting any program fails with “cannot open display :0.0” and
> similar messages).
>
> AFAIU, the cause is that networkmanager changes my hostname (after
> DHCP?), in my case to “new-host2” or something similar, and this
> seems to break the X session. When I manually restore the hostname
> with “sudo hostname <original-hostname>”, the problem is solved. Is
> there anyway to disable this behaviour for networkmanager?
I have the exact same problem too. If somebody has a solution, I'd like
to hear about it.