xwayland-satellite

I switched to Niri at the end of last year after over a decade on i3.[1] Having horizontal scroll unbounded by my monitor size and workspace count unbound by the number of shortcut keys I have configured has been very freeing, and the graphical stuff is nice too. My only remaining pain point is that its X compatibility layer, xwayland-satellite, does not yet support drag and drop between X and Wayland programs.[2] [1]: https://davidyat.es/2026/01/28/niri/ [2]: https://github.com/Supreeeme/xwayland-satellite/issues/133

> Another big issue imo to me feels like ssh, X servers ssh forwarding/vnc just works, Yet I haven't really found ways to do things like VNC on wayland on a server or something as easy (or even possible?) on wayland as compared to x servers Waypipe[0] for native Wayland applications, and if you need to forward X11 apps there's xwayland-satellite[1]. You can hook xwayland-satellite with Waypipe and forward X11 apps through Waypipe. This way you get even better performance than with traditional X11 forwarding methods. The other day I was playing Steam/Proton games through the network this way. Of course, X11 forwarding also works fine on Wayland with ssh -X, but as I said, consider Waypipe + xwayland-satellite. [0] - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe/ [1] - https://github.com/Supreeeme/xwayland-satellite

> It may even age gracefully, as the author wants it to, provided that Xlib stays around. Or maybe it could eventually develop a thin abstraction layer to allow pluggable rectangle-drawing and text-rendering APIs, and start supporting Wayland, too. For application software (which appears to be what the author cares about), xwayland (and the other one whose name escapes me at the moment[0]) should be a trivial way to support wayland perfectly well without actually having to expend any effort. [0] EDIT: Found it; https://github.com/Supreeeme/xwayland-satellite ... which actually apparently is xwayland, just without needing compositor support. Not quite what I thought I remembered, still super cool and useful.