gnome-control-center uses hostnamed via D-Bus to change the hostname. The documentation says to use libnss-myhostname. Good luck convincing the systemd maintainers to change their mind on this issue. https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/hostnamed/
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