From 322b91b51f45ea6bbdffae52b8bcbd559313efc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 19:59:44 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Only use Wayland if loading the glfw-wayland.so DLL succeeds

---
 kitty/constants.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kitty/constants.py b/kitty/constants.py
index 333f2f1f1..bbd01d51f 100644
--- a/kitty/constants.py
+++ b/kitty/constants.py
@@ -203,7 +203,11 @@ def detect_if_wayland_ok() -> bool:
     wayland = glfw_path('wayland')
     if not os.path.exists(wayland):
         return False
-    return True
+    import ctypes
+    with suppress(Exception):
+        setattr(detect_if_wayland_ok, 'keep_module_loaded', ctypes.CDLL(wayland))
+        return True
+    return False
 
 
 def is_wayland(opts: Optional['Options'] = None) -> bool: