How To Install xorg-x11-server-Xdmx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xorg-x11-server-Xdmx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is xorg-x11-server-Xdmx.x86_64
Xdmx is proxy X server that provides multi-head support for multiple displays attached to different machines (each of which is running a typical X server). When Xinerama is used with Xdmx, the multiple displays on multiple machines are presented to the user as a single unified screen. A simple application for Xdmx would be to provide multi-head support using two desktop machines, each of which has a single display device attached to it. A complex application for Xdmx would be to unify a 4 by 4 grid of 1280x1024 displays (each attached to one of 16 computers) into a unified 5120x4096 display.
We can use yum to install xorg-x11-server-Xdmx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xorg-x11-server-Xdmx.x86_64.
Install xorg-x11-server-Xdmx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install xorg-x11-server-Xdmx.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xorg-x11-server-Xdmx.x86_64
How To Uninstall xorg-x11-server-Xdmx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the xorg-x11-server-Xdmx.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove xorg-x11-server-Xdmx.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xdmx.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/bin/Xdmx
/usr/bin/dmxaddinput
/usr/bin/dmxaddscreen
/usr/bin/dmxinfo
/usr/bin/dmxreconfig
/usr/bin/dmxresize
/usr/bin/dmxrminput
/usr/bin/dmxrmscreen
/usr/bin/dmxtodmx
/usr/bin/dmxwininfo
/usr/bin/vdltodmx
/usr/bin/xdmxconfig
/usr/share/man/man1/Xdmx.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dmxtodmx.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vdltodmx.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xdmxconfig.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xorg-x11-server-Xdmx.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.