telinit 5

Category: Administration

telinit 5

Switch to runlevel 5, the graphical state

Enters runlevel 5, mapped to graphical.target on systemd systems, which starts the display manager and desktop. This is the runlevel change that brings a text-only system to a full graphical login. Equivalent to systemctl isolate graphical.target.
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