Re: _NET_DESKTOP_GEOMETRY, _NET_WM_HANDLED_ICONS and WM_CLIENT_MACHINE question

[Ray Strode <halfline hawaii rr com>]

> > Is the attached patch ok for these two issues (I hope sgml is the
> > source)?
> >    
> It looks pretty good to me. On my system gethostname() seems to return
>
> > a fully-qualified name - maybe just a configuration issue?
> >    
> I tried on two computers, both use only host without domain, for both the 
> code snippet and WM_CLIENT_MACHINE.
>  
From the gethostname() linux manpage:

> The gethostname() function returns a NUL-terminated hostname  (set  
earlier  by sethostname())

So it's going to return whatever was passed to sethostname() last 
(probably by /bin/hostname at
bootup)

On Red Hat, at bootup, the hostname is set to whatever the HOSTNAME 
environment variable
is set to in /etc/sysconfig/network.  If the environment variable is not 
set and DHCP is being used,
then the hostname is retrieved by doing a reverse lookup on the host 
machine's newly assigned
IP.  The reverse lookup will return a FQDN, so I think that's what's 
probably happening in Havoc's
case.

I'm not sure how it works in SuSE, but I guess the bottom line is that 
your systems' hostnames aren't
being set to FQDNs and Havoc's system's hostname is.

--Ray