CentOS 7 how to stop / start Gnome desktop from command line

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Serge picture Serge · Aug 18, 2016 · Viewed 53.8k times · Source

I have remote server running under CentOS 7, usually it's enough to operate using SSH CLI - but sometimes I need a graphic access, so I installed Gnome Desktop there too.

But how to stop or start Gnome Desktop ? Especially because gnome-shell eats CPU when I don't need Gnome.

It seems strange but 3 pages of Google search did not help. I'm afraid there are no a simple solution here like

service gnome stop | start

So thanks in advance for any hint or howto !

Answer

Serge picture Serge · Aug 18, 2016

But the solution was simple. First of all - check if you GDM service is running.

service gdm status

If not - start it to make active. (my case service gdm was loaded but inactive and it causes a confusing) After that I just stopped gdm service

service gdm stop

and checked any Gnome processes

ps aux | grep gnome

an output is empty, Gnome desktop gone until started again by

service gdm start

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