[Linux] Install, Startup, Close Gnome Desktop Environment Via Terminal

Introduction

Gnome & gdm

Gnome is a very famous open-source desktop environment system, the current version has come to Gnome 3. If you want to install this desktop environment in your device, you can use the following command:

sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment

If you want to start Gnome, you need to use gdm (Gnome Display Manager) to execute command. Compared with general default X window xdm, gdm can directly adjust the settings of the desktop environment from the graphical introduction, and xdm has to edit various xdm settings.

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Command

To start the Gnome desktop environment (or close it), you can use the following commands. By the way, because it is tested in the Gnome 3 environment, the commands are all recorded as gdm3.

Start

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm3 start

Stop

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm3 stop

Restart

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart

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References

• http://www.fifi.org/doc/gnome-intro/html/introduction-to-gnome/C/index.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Display_Manager
• https://help.gnome.org/admin/gdm/stable/

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