hostname is not changing

[stephanlamoureux]

I'm using Arch/Hyprland and I added the env to my .zshrc:

export HOSTNAME="ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9"

but when I use pfetch it still displays as:
host 20XW003HUS ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9

I also tried adding it to my hyprland.conf as env = HOSTNAME, ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9

echo $HOSTNAME does return the correct string.

[Gobidev]

I agree that this is a bit confusing.

host in pfetch does not display your hostname, the hostname is only part of the title, like in user@system, where system can be changed with the HOSTNAME variable. The host field displays the name of your hardware system as reported by linux and can currently not be manually overwritten.

If you really need to change the host manually, you could compile the project yourself with a fixed host or open an issue for an option to set the host manually.

[Un1q32]

In my fork of the original pfetch I have a variable PF_HOST to control the host text. I might make a patch to pfetch-rs to add this functionality eventually.