Xdmx command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

Xdmx: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: Xdmx: command not found

Solutions to Xdmx: command not found

How To Fix Xdmx: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu Xdmx is provided by xdmx package.

xdmx is:

Xdmx is a proxy X server that uses one or more other X servers as its display device(s). It provides multi-head X functionality for displays that might be located on different machines. Xdmx functions as a front-end X server that acts as a proxy to a set of back-end X servers. All of the visible rendering is passed to the back-end X servers. Clients connect to the Xdmx front-end, and everything appears as it would in a regular multi-head configuration. If Xinerama is enabled (e.g., with +xinerama on the command line), the clients see a single large screen.

More information about X.Org can be found at: URL:https://www.x.org

This package is built from the X.org xserver module.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install xdmx

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install xdmx.

sudo apt -y install xdmx

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install xdmx

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix Xdmx command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.