From: Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: NEW: wayland/xwayland-satellite: rootless Xwayland integration for Wayland compositors (mostly niri)
To: ports@openbsd.org, tobhe@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:43:47 +0100

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?

i've tested it with niri-25.11.20260211 and it works fine, DISPLAY=:0
xlsclients correctly shows X clients (xeyes, xclock..) connected to the
Xwayland process spawned by xwayland-satellite (spawned by niri)

funnily, since my mesa is locally rebuilt against wayland, i guess
that's the reason glxgears doesnt show up in the list of X clients..

ok to import :)