Device name

[AnupamMitra]

Few days back I have installed Ubuntu 24.04.1 in one of my PCs. Now-a-days when I open the Terminal it is found that the device name is shown twice, as under.
nareesh-pal-memorial-trust@nareesh-pal-memorial-trust-H310M-S2-2-0:~$
This was not the position earlier. Now I would like to rectify it. How it is to be rectified? Kindly advise.

[grahammechanical]

What you are seeing is username@computername.

The install process asks us for our name; the device/computer name and then our user name. When I enter my full name (Christian + Surname) the installer assumes that to be the user name and puts a hyphen between my two names. I edit the user name to something more useful. If I do not notice this "helpful" action my user name would be Christian name-Surname. This has happened with one install that I put in.

I think that is what has happen here.

Regards

[Dennis N]

...Now I would like to rectify it. How it is to be rectified? Kindly advise.

Edit Device Name by going to:
Settings > System > About
Edit User Name by going to:
Settings > System > Users

[ActionParsnip]

What is the output of

echo "username - `whoami`"; echo "hostname - `hostname`"

[AnupamMitra]

What you are seeing is username@computername.

The install process asks us for our name; the device/computer name and then our user name. When I enter my full name (Christian + Surname) the installer assumes that to be the user name and puts a hyphen between my two names. I edit the user name to something more useful. If I do not notice this "helpful" action my user name would be Christian name-Surname. This has happened with one install that I put in.

I think that is what has happen here.

Regards

Thanks for your cooperation. I have rectified it through Settings > System > About.

Regards.

[AnupamMitra]

Edit Device Name by going to:
Settings > System > About
Edit User Name by going to:
Settings > System > Users

Thanks for your reply. It stands rectified as per your suggestions.

Regards.

[AnupamMitra]

What is the output of

echo "username - `whoami`"; echo "hostname - `hostname`"

Thanks for your support. Now it stands rectified through Settings > System > About.

Regards.

[oldfred]

I always make my username fred and use hardware version plus install name for hostname. I have several systems and in each may have multiple installs, so need to keep track of which is which.

fred@z170-noble:~$ echo "username - `whoami`"; echo "hostname - `hostname`" 
username - fred 
hostname - z170-noble