[Error] Wrong hostname for Debian on Fedora host

[slimhk45]

My host is Bluefin (a battery-included Fedora Silverblue distribution) and I use Distrobox 1.7.2.1.

I tried to create a Debian distrobox on my Bluefin host using this command:

distrobox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/debian-toolbox:latest --name debian --home /var/home/user/Debian/ --nvidia

distrobox enter debian

and it returned the wrong hostname user@fedora instead of user@debian.

To solve this problem I need to enforce the hostname I want:

distrobox create --image quay.io/toolbx-images/debian-toolbox:latest --name debian --hostname debian --home /var/home/user/Debian/ --nvidia

Is it possible to enforce the hostname automatically for Debian distrobox on Fedora host? My problem is that I use BoxBuddy for managing my distroboxes and BoxBuddy is using the first command that doesn't enforce the hostname. Hence it is not possible to use BoxBuddy to create proper Debian distroboxes on Fedora host.

The BoxBuddy maintainer redirect me to you to do upstream change.

See here Dvlv/BoxBuddyRS#94

[89luca89]

This is the new behaviour of distrobox as of version 1.7.2+

This is automatic as changing hostname will break startupwmclass on gnome/kde for exported apps