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How to disable (or enable) GUI on boot in Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) (works on all systemd Linux)

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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

Areas covered:
  • How to disable GUI on boot
  • How to enable GUI on boot
  • How to start GUI from the console
  1. 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
  2. Logout from the X-session or simply reboot your system to exit the GUI.
    Bash: 
    $ gnome-session-quit
To enable back the GUI to start on boot:
Bash: 
$ sudo systemctl set-default graphical

To start the GUI manually from the console:
Bash: 
$ startx
For GNOME GUI installations using GDM as the default display manager, you can start GUI from a command line by executing the command below:
Bash: 
$ sudo systemctl start gdm3
 
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I have default target multi-user but still it boots to GUI.
 
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