I am thinking of switching to manjaro but need some questions answered.
how do I change localhost.localdomain.
is there a gui for changing the efi boot info.
can I start wifi before browsers and email load after a reboot.
Thanks
manjaro is the brand.
in linux there are different desktops, you’ll need to select your desktop environment, they all do things differently.
for example, manjaro gnome & manjaro kde are very popular all purpose desktops, while manjaro xfce is what would be considered light & fast but not complete as, it’s a more modular desktop being made up of several pieces, for advanced users it’s perfect for customizing.
then there is other environments or window managers that are more of a do it yourself nature.
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You don’t - localhost.localdomain is a vital part and necessary for the system to work.
During install you supply a hostname which is used to identify the system on the network.
Depending on your network setup your dhcp service may supply the domain part or you can specifiy it in /etc/hosts.
Example of such setup
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.1.1 myhostname.my.local.net myhostname
No need for that.
Yes - you will have to setup the connection - but subseqently it can connect without further intervention.
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hostnamectl --help
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I’m used to setting host and domain names during the installation (Slackware) or running a net applet after installation (Pclinuxos) so I forget what file to edit.
I have four linux distros on sda so yes I need something like grub-customizer.
I am still searching for a way of getting the wifi connectection set before X starts loading browsers or email.
You can make sure the services for the browser/email apps require the wait for online service to be sure
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-networkd-wait-online.service.html
Not sure what’s your edition, that’s why here’s a generic method:
install and open nmtui, select edit connection, choose your connection and you’ll find 2 necessary options in the bottom of the configuration dialog (connect automatically and available for all users).
Doesn’t os-prober detect them?(Sorry for horrible grammar)
I change at least one of the distros regularly so I need to to re run the boot loader. The Manjaro boot loader found all the current distros but how do I re run it and also make it reboot on the last entry I rebooted from.
If I understand the query correctly,
After every distro install, go to manjaro and run os-prober. Then run sudo update-grub.
The last OS you booted from is shown in the grub menu.
I was looking for a gui to do that for me but if necessary I can do it manually.
Thanks for that. I got brave and copied .thunderbird to the Manjaro partition rebooted and don’t get the server not found message in Thunderbird so hopefully I wont need to do it but it is nice to know how.
i have got rEFInd working so am happy to keep using Manjaro.
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