i am currently trying to use steam on wayland, but dont find any good method for using x11 applications on wayland. does someone know a good way for doing this?
some info:
- niri wm (wayland)
- nixos 24.11 with flakes & home-manager
Already tried this?
programs.xwayland.enable = true;
is this for home-manager or system configuration?
system configuration!
There’s a page on xwayland in the niri wiki that gives you some options, since niri doesn’t have xwayland support out of the box.
I’m using the xwayland-satellite option, which is basically starting xwayland-satellite (which you can get from nixpkgs) and setting the DISPLAY env variable mentioned in the wiki. Should hopefully work with no real issues 
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could you share your config?
Sorry, but I don’t use Niri, I just thought it was an easy fix.
the niri wiki just describes how to use xwayland-satellite. just add that to your config, then run it and then run your app.
for example when I want to run yourX11App I do this in two terminal windows
$ xwayland-satellite
$ env DISPLAY=:0 yourX11App
there may be edge cases but this works as a quick way without having to suck up resources.