libxcb
brew install libxcb
v1.17.0
MIT
C library providing low-level access to the X Window System protocol via XCB.
Why you might care
libxcb is the modern, asynchronous alternative to Xlib for communicating with X servers. It's a runtime dependency for most X11 applications and graphical toolkits (GTK, Qt, etc.) on Unix-like systems. You need it installed to run or develop GUI software on X11.
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Runtime dependencies
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Links
- https://www.x.org/
- Brew formula source: Formula/lib/libxcb.rb
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