Killing Xorg completely without it restarting

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Is there a way to kill xorg without having lightdm restart? I’ve tried stopping the lightdm service but it says that no service of that name exists.

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For context, I’m trying to install the NVIDIA drivers manually. I get an error about X running while doing so.

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I would post the install attempt s output from Terminal, it might also help.

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$sudo systemctl isolate multi-user.target

switches to CLI mode

$sudo systemctl isolate graphical.target

switches back to GUI mode

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Thanks, I’ll try that out when I get home.

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You could just drop into a tty from your desktop then run the command.

ctrl alt F2 to get into tty screen.

ctrl alt F1 come back to your desktop

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