Manual Start/Stop of the GUI in Ubuntu

By donmc, 12 May, 2010
Topic
Tips & Clues
Open Source

To stop the GUI:

Code:
The easist way is to open a terminal and execute these commands:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

And then ctrl+alt+backspace to end your current session

To restart the GUI:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start