Managing the Graphical User Interface (GUI)

This document provides commands to switch your system's default boot target between the graphical user interface (GUI) mode and the command-line interface (CLI) mode.

Switching between these modes can be useful depending on whether you need a graphical environment or prefer working solely from the command line.

Note

These commands are applicable for systems using systemd.

Disable GUI (Boot to Command Line):

To set the system to boot directly into the command line (multi-user mode) without a graphical environment, use the following commands:

  1. Set the default target to multi-user.target: 
    sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target
  2. Reboot the system for the change to take effect: 
    sudo reboot

Enable GUI (Boot to Graphical Interface):

To set the system to boot into the graphical user interface, use the following commands:

  1. Set the default target to graphical.target: 
    sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target
  2. Reboot the system for the change to take effect: 
    sudo reboot

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