1. 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:
systemctl stop weston
The following command starts the Weston service:
systemctl start weston
The following command stops and then restarts the Weston service:
systemctl restart weston
2. Preventing Weston from automatically starting on boot
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:
systemctl disable weston
Note: The following command enables the automatic start of the Weston service:
systemctl enable weston