xwayland-satellite - rootless xwayland for niri

[Supreeeme]

Here's something I've been working on for the last few months: https://github.com/Supreeeme/xwayland-satellite

xwayland-satellite is rootless xwayland that lives outside of the compositor. I made it for niri, but it should work with any compositor implementing xdg_wm_base. I primarily made it for Steam, so it's likely missing a lot of features and might even crash from time to time, so feel free to open some bugs and I'll work on fixing them!

[nebulosa2007]

Could you add a tag to the last commit or make a release? I want to try your implementation, but don't want to make another -git package...

[Supreeeme]

Tagged the last commit!

[Okanda]

Hello. I don't understand how to use this in niri.

[Supreeeme]

You can just run it while in niri (with cargo run). It then prints out what display it's connected to, so then you launch any X11 apps with DISPLAY=<display> set (where <display> is probably :0). You can also set it to run at startup in niri and then add the display to the environment section of the config.

[Okanda]

So simple ! Thank you :)