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From:
Tobias Heider <tobias.heider@stusta.de>
Subject:
Re: NEW: wayland/xwayland-satellite: rootless Xwayland integration for Wayland compositors (mostly niri)
To:
Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org>
Cc:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:27:17 +0100

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On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 06:03:19PM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote:
> Le Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 04:11:33PM +0100, Tobias Heider a écrit :
> > This is a new port for xwayland-satellite which is needed for xwayland
> > in Niri.
> > 
> > Niri does't have built in xwayland support to it relies on this external
> > implementation to run X apps. I didn't send the port earlier because
> > niri had a bug where it would immediately crash when running xwayland
> > apps but that is fixed now.
> > It didn't require any additional patches or custom setup tweaks.
> > Niri will nowadays start it automatically if the xwayland-satellite binary
> > is available, all we need to do is add it as a runtime dependency.
> > 
> > Source: https://github.com/Supreeeme/xwayland-satellite
> > 
> > ok?
> 
> reads ok to me, havent built tested it yet. Maybe add a comment
> explaining why the need for llvm libs ?
> 
> Landry
> 

I think it is for bindgen to generate the xcb bindings. I can add that as a
comment.