distrobox keeps my terminal host name the same when entering a container.

[bitzorbites]

in some places I'm reading this seems like the correct behavior, however, every video I've watch shows the hostname part of the shell prompt change to the name of the container.

expected behavior: entering a distrobox causes the hostname portion of my shell prompt to change to containers host name.
example: user@originalhostname becomes user@ubuntucontainer1 when entering the container named ubuntucontainer1

actual behavior: my user deck@steamdeck remains deck@steamdeck even while inside a new ubuntu container. using the command apt proves my container does work, because my host is an arch based distro.

screenshot of terminal creating and entering an ubuntu-20-04 container:

screenshot from a popular youtube channel using distrobox:

This is very confusing behavior, and its quite hard to tell when you are actually inside of a container. for almost a day, i thought distrobox just wasnt working at all until I tried a simple apt command and realized I was actually in a container even though the prompt wasn't changed.

i am using a steamdeck with manual installation of latest distrobox and podman-launcher in /home/deck/.local/bin and added to the $PATH variable. on a side note, as a second issue, i had to remove the "xhost +si:localuser:$USER" from .bashrc because everytime I created a container it would say "xhost: command not found" So I have been unable to get any gui applications to work.

[ivenomweed]

Hey I was having the same issue,

I know this was 2 months a go, But if someone else is facing the same issue please try with the --hostname something like distrobox create --name arch3 --hostname arch3 --image quay.io/toolbx/arch-toolbox:latest IDK why but it's not set by default.