Is there a GUI tool for managing systemd on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)?
I want to be able so see the status of services and/or units (and/or whatever else systemd calls them).
Ideally, I could also filter so as to only display running services. Also filter to only display enabled services.
Apparently, Ubuntu 16.04 had systemd-ui, which I never used.
This article from 2011 mentions some other tools that existed long ago on various Linux distributions.
If there is not a GUI tool, is there a curses tool?
I want to be able to quickly review a list of running and enabled services, and in as few key presses as possible, stop and disable the services/units that I don't want.
Thanks!
17 Answers
I'm surprised no one has mentioned chkservice yet. A curses tool for enabling,disabling, and starting/stopping systemd units. It's even in the usual apt repo, so you can just sudo apt install chkservice.
I wrote a Lua + whiptail script that can display, stop, and disable Systemd units. The script is here:
1I'm not aware of one. It doesn't get much faster than than the CLI commands though:
systemctl status
systemctl stop some-service
systemctl disable some-service These five...
- KDE: SystemdGenie (= Kcmsystemd for KDE 5)
- GTK: Systemd System Manager - Last Update 2015
- GTK: Systemd Manager - Website down
- Web: Cockpit
...are listed here:
- EN:
- DE:
So, if you use KDE, there may be two for you.
A screenshot of SystemdGenie:
If you are using amd64 system, you can download the packages systemd-ui_3-4_amd64.deb and systemd-gui_3-4_all.deb from Xenial Repository and manually install with apt:
sudo apt install ./systemd-ui_3-4_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./systemd-gui_3-4_all.debI did this and worked like a charm.
systemadmBibliography:
Not a GUI, but a web-ui solution.
Introducing Cockpit, a web-based server manager.
0There is also Webmin: sudo apt install webmin. Open a browser, fill address bar with . In the sidebar go to System > Bootup and Shutdown.
