How to stop and start Weston

Starting, stopping and restarting Weston

Weston has its own systemd service (/lib/systemd/system/weston.service) to easily start, stop and restart Weston.

The following command stops the Weston service:

Board $> systemctl stop weston

The following command starts the Weston service:

Board $> systemctl start weston

The following command stops and then restarts the Weston service:

Board $> systemctl restart weston

The Weston service is automatically started on boot as specified in /lib/systemd/system/weston.service.

The following command disables the automatic start of the Weston service:

Board $> systemctl disable weston

Note: The following command enables the automatic start of the Weston service:

Board $> systemctl enable weston