How to Disable Desktop GUI on Jetson™ Modules?

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN?

1- How to Disable Desktop GUI on Jetson Modules?

ENVIRONMENT

OS: Jetpack 4.5

How to Disable Desktop GUI on Jetson Modules

In this blog post, we will show how to disable the desktop environment to save memory on RAM. This will help you to save space and time when training models on machine learning applications by disabling the programs running on the desktop.

If you want to disable the Desktop GUI only temporarily run the following command.

sudo init 3

To enable the desktop when you finish, run the following command.

sudo init 5

If you wish to stop Desktop GUI on every reboot, run the following command.

sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target

To enable GUI again, run the following command.

sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target

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