Relaunch Weston - Qualcomm Dragonwing Documentation

To manually relaunch the Weston server after closing the Weston process, do the following:

You must enable SSH to connect to the target device. For instructions, see Sign in using SSH.

To identify the ID of the Weston processes, run the following commands:

mount -o remount,rw /

ps -A | grep weston

Sample output:

?        00:00:12 weston
?        00:00:00 weston-keyboard
?        00:00:01 weston-desktop-

Note the Weston process IDs from the output to use in the next step.

To kill the Weston process, run the following command:
You can skip the following command if the modetest application is already running.
kill <PID>
Replace <PID> with the process IDs identified in the previous step. For example, based on the sample output: kill 824 1090 1092.
To relaunch the Weston server, run the following commands:
mount -o remount,rw /
systemctl start weston.service