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libx11

brew install libx11 v1.8.13 MIT

Core X11 protocol client library for X.Org, the foundational display server for Unix/Linux GUIs.

Why you might care

Essential shared library depended on by nearly all X11 applications and window managers on Unix systems. You won't install this directly unless building X11 software from source or managing a headless X environment; most GUI apps pull it in automatically as a transitive dependency.

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