disable-gui-desktop-on-raspberry-pi.md

Disable GUI Desktop On Raspberry Pi OS

Category: Linux

You can temporarily disable the GUI desktop on Raspberry Pi OS as follows:

systemctl stop lightdm

To restart the GUI desktop:

systemctl start lightdm

To permanently disable the GUI desktop, launch system configuration:

sudo raspi-config

From the menu, select "System Options" then "Boot / Auto Login".

To boot to the console, select the "Console" option and save settings.

Restart the OS for changes to take affect.