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> It's not essential for 99.9% of Mac users and only developers and system admins would want it installed.

It is worth pointing out that X11.app is necessary for window management apps like Cinch[1] and Divvy[2]. The former simply reproduces Windows 7's "dragging to the edges to split/maximize" behavior. This is hardly deeply technical stuff. Both apps are available on the Mac App Store - but users need to jump through a painful DMG installation hoop to get their purchases to run.

[1] http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/ [2] http://mizage.com/divvy/




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