Re: networkmanager hostname woes

[Arun Isaac]

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.