DISTROBOX-STOP(1)

💅 DISTROBOX-STOP — the distrobox-stop(1) glow-up

okay bestie, welcome to the User Manual for distrobox stop / distrobox-stop, brought to you by Distrobox and your local over-caffeinated Unix gremlin 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

distrobox stop, and also distrobox-stop — same energy, two spellings, both iconic 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

distrobox-stop stops a running distrobox. that's the whole job. it's giving girl who closes the tab when she's done 😌

here's the tea though: distroboxes do not shut themselves down when you exit out of them. they just... stay there. running. chilling. because that way, the next time you enter, it's instant — like, no waiting, no loading screen, just vibes. and this is how you actually stop them. periodt. 🔥

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

distrobox stop

and here are all the flags, no cap, every single one 👑

• --all, -a — stop all the distroboxes. every last one. go off 💀
• --yes, -Y — non-interactive mode: it just stops, no asking, no "are you sure bestie?" — pure decisive main character energy ✨
• --help, -h — show this message (hi, you're looking at the vibe 💅)
• --root, -r — launch podman/docker/lilipod with root privileges. important note: if you need root, this is the preferred way over "sudo distrobox" 🚨 (and also: if you gotta use a program other than sudo to get root privileges, you specify it through the DBX_SUDO_PROGRAM env variable, or the distrobox_sudo_program config variable. iykyk)
• --verbose, -v — show more verbosity. it will simply say more words at you 🗣️
• --version, -V — show version 📌

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🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

look at her go 🥹

distrobox-stop container-name1 container-name2
distrobox-stop container-name
distrobox-stop --all

and yes, you can also use environment variables to specify the container manager and the name:

DBX_CONTAINER_MANAGER="docker" DBX_CONTAINER_NAME=test-alpine distrobox-stop

literally one line, zero drama, slay 🌈

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🧚

the little config girlies that whisper to your command before it even runs:

• DBX_CONTAINER_MANAGER
• DBX_CONTAINER_NAME
• DBX_NON_INTERACTIVE
• DBX_SUDO_PROGRAM

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🌟 reminder bestie: a distrobox that's still running is not a bug, it's a speed feature. stop it on purpose, with distrobox-stop, and only when you actually mean it 💖

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mwah, that's the whole page 🫶 this came from Distrobox, dated Mar 2026, filed under DISTROBOX-STOP(1) in the manual. go stop something, queen 👑✨