xinit

Install command:
brew install xinit

Start the X Window System server

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xinit

License: MIT AND APSL-2.0

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/xinit.json

Formula code: xinit.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
tahoe
sequoia
sonoma
macOS on
Intel
sonoma
Linux ARM64
x86_64

Current versions:

stable 1.4.4

Depends on:

libx11 1.8.13 X.Org: Core X11 protocol client library
xauth 1.1.5 X.Org Applications: xauth
xmodmap 1.0.12 Modify keymaps and pointer button mappings in X
xrdb 1.2.3 X resource database utility
xterm 410 Terminal emulator for the X Window System
lndir 1.0.5 Create a shadow directory of symbolic links to another directory tree
mkfontscale 1.2.4 Create an index of scalable font files for X
quartz-wm 1.3.2 XQuartz window-manager

Depends on when building from source:

pkgconf 3.0.4 Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit
tradcpp 0.5.3 K&R-style C preprocessor
To start privileged xinit now and restart at login:
    sudo brew services start xinit --file=$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/xinit/homebrew.mxcl.privileged_startx.plist

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