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The following article will show you how to disable the GUI on boot in Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) Desktop Linux
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To start the GUI manually from the console:
For GNOME GUI installations using GDM as the default display manager, you can start GUI from a command line by executing the command below:
Areas covered:
- How to disable GUI on boot
- How to enable GUI on boot
- How to start GUI from the console
- The following command will disable GUI on boot, and therefore upon the system reboot, the system will boot into multi-user target (default normal Linux console):
Bash:$ sudo systemctl set-default multi-user
- Logout from the X-session or simply reboot your system to exit the GUI.
Bash:
$ gnome-session-quit
Bash:
$ sudo systemctl set-default graphical
To start the GUI manually from the console:
Bash:
$ startx
Bash:
$ sudo systemctl start gdm3