diff --git a/docs/hyprland.md b/docs/hyprland.md
index 521c241..3881d15 100644
--- a/docs/hyprland.md
+++ b/docs/hyprland.md
@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ The backend targets Hyprland 0.53 and KWin 6.6. It requires `Hyprland`,
 Aquamarine requires a renderer-backed allocator even with headless outputs.
 The workspace starts a private KWin virtual compositor to supply that allocator,
 then creates a Hyprland headless output and removes the nested Wayland output.
+
+KWin's virtual compositor uses the first DRM device that opens, and Hyprland
+allocates its buffers on that device. NVIDIA's GBM cannot allocate them. On a
+host with an NVIDIA GPU and another GPU, the private KWin compositor runs in a
+bubblewrap namespace whose `/dev/dri` holds only the other GPU's render node.
+Hosts with one GPU vendor use every render node as before.
 KWin supplies no desktop shell. Neither compositor connects to a host display,
 input device, system bus, or DRM card. Weston 14 cannot serve as the parent:
 Aquamarine requests `wl_compositor` version 6 while Weston advertises version 5.
diff --git a/docs/native-cosmic.md b/docs/native-cosmic.md
index c19511f..b4ca48d 100644
--- a/docs/native-cosmic.md
+++ b/docs/native-cosmic.md
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ output scale and EI input checks succeed.
 
 The backend uses COSMIC toplevel information and management, ext image-copy
 capture, wlr output management, and COSMIC's private D-Bus EI input socket.
-Capture uses shared memory and does not require a GPU. Window identifiers are
+Capture uses shared memory and does not require a GPU. The compositor, its Weston parent and XWayland
+load only Mesa's EGL vendor, so an installed NVIDIA driver is never used. Window identifiers are
 COSMIC's stable foreign-toplevel identifiers. PID is unavailable from this
 protocol and remains unset.
 
diff --git a/src/session/cosmic.rs b/src/session/cosmic.rs
index 68eaba5..f4fb08b 100644
--- a/src/session/cosmic.rs
+++ b/src/session/cosmic.rs
@@ -335,12 +335,15 @@ fn xwayland_exec() -> Result<()> {
         .create(true)
         .append(true)
         .open(runtime.join("xwayland.log"))?;
-    let error = Command::new(executable)
+    let mut command = Command::new(executable);
+    command
         .args(args)
         .arg("-auth")
         .arg(authority)
-        .stderr(Stdio::from(stderr))
-        .exec();
+        .stderr(Stdio::from(stderr));
+    // The compositor does not pass its environment on to XWayland.
+    super::private::use_mesa_egl(&mut command);
+    let error = command.exec();
     Err(error).context("exec authenticated COSMIC XWayland")
 }
 fn set_cookie(authority: &Path, display: &str, cookie: &str) -> Result<()> {
@@ -448,6 +451,12 @@ fn compositor_namespace(runtime: &Path, wrapper: Option<&Path>) -> Result<Comman
     } else {
         "parent-bin"
     });
+    if wrapper.is_none() {
+        // --die-with-parent stops Weston only from inside a PID namespace;
+        // without one Weston outlives a crashed daemon. cosmic-comp keeps the
+        // host PID view for client credentials and exits with its guard socket.
+        command.arg("--unshare-pid");
+    }
     command.arg("--tmpfs").arg(&destination);
     if let Some(wrapper) = wrapper {
         let file = fs::File::open(wrapper)?;
@@ -594,6 +603,7 @@ impl CosmicSession {
             ])
             .arg(format!("--width={}", options.width))
             .arg(format!("--height={}", options.height));
+        super::private::use_mesa_egl(&mut parent);
         prepare_child(&mut parent);
         let (stdout, stderr) = log_file(&runtime.join("cosmic-parent.log"))?;
         parent.stdout(stdout).stderr(stderr);
@@ -601,7 +611,11 @@ impl CosmicSession {
         wait_for(
             Duration::from_secs(10),
             || {
-                if let Some(status) = session.parent.as_mut().unwrap().try_wait()? {
+                // Observe without reaping, so shutdown's group signals cannot
+                // reach a recycled process group.
+                if let super::private::UnreapedExit::Exited(status) =
+                    super::private::unreaped_exit(session.parent.as_ref().unwrap().id())
+                {
                     bail!("private COSMIC parent exited: {status}");
                 }
                 Ok(parent_socket.exists())
@@ -637,6 +651,7 @@ impl CosmicSession {
             });
         }
         session.lifetime = Some(lifetime);
+        super::private::use_mesa_egl(&mut compositor);
         prepare_child(&mut compositor);
         let (stdout, stderr) = log_file(&runtime.join("cosmic.log"))?;
         compositor.stdout(stdout).stderr(stderr);
@@ -741,18 +756,27 @@ impl CosmicSession {
         }
         self.private.shutdown();
         if let Some(mut parent) = self.parent.take() {
+            // Signal the group: Weston survives the death of its bwrap
+            // supervisor despite --die-with-parent. The unreaped leader keeps
+            // the group number from being recycled before the SIGKILL.
+            let group = -(parent.id() as i32);
             unsafe {
-                libc::kill(parent.id() as i32, libc::SIGTERM);
+                libc::kill(group, libc::SIGTERM);
             }
-            if wait_for(
+            let _ = wait_for(
                 Duration::from_secs(3),
-                || Ok(parent.try_wait()?.is_some()),
+                || {
+                    Ok(!matches!(
+                        super::private::unreaped_exit(parent.id()),
+                        super::private::UnreapedExit::Running
+                    ))
+                },
                 "COSMIC parent stop",
-            )
-            .is_err()
-            {
-                let _ = parent.kill();
+            );
+            unsafe {
+                libc::kill(group, libc::SIGKILL);
             }
+            let _ = parent.kill();
             let _ = parent.wait();
         }
         // Smithay owns these paths rather than XWayland itself. A compositor
diff --git a/src/session/hyprland.rs b/src/session/hyprland.rs
index db39883..926bc75 100644
--- a/src/session/hyprland.rs
+++ b/src/session/hyprland.rs
@@ -54,6 +54,37 @@ pub(crate) fn blockers() -> Vec<String> {
     blockers
 }
 
+/// KWin's virtual renderer takes the first DRM device that opens, and
+/// Hyprland allocates its buffers on that renderer's device. NVIDIA's GBM
+/// cannot allocate them, so on a host that also has another GPU the renderer
+/// sees only that GPU's render node. Other hosts keep every node.
+fn parent_render_node() -> Option<PathBuf> {
+    let mut nodes: Vec<(PathBuf, bool)> = fs::read_dir("/sys/class/drm")
+        .ok()?
+        .flatten()
+        .filter_map(|entry| {
+            let name = entry.file_name().to_string_lossy().into_owned();
+            name.strip_prefix("renderD")
+                .is_some_and(|n| !n.is_empty() && n.bytes().all(|c| c.is_ascii_digit()))
+                .then_some(())?;
+            let driver = fs::read_link(entry.path().join("device/driver")).ok()?;
+            let nvidia = driver.file_name().is_some_and(|name| name == "nvidia");
+            let node = Path::new("/dev/dri").join(&name);
+            let path = std::ffi::CString::new(node.as_os_str().as_encoded_bytes()).ok()?;
+            (unsafe { libc::access(path.as_ptr(), libc::R_OK | libc::W_OK) } == 0)
+                .then_some((node, nvidia))
+        })
+        .collect();
+    nodes.sort();
+    if !nodes.iter().any(|(_, nvidia)| *nvidia) {
+        return None;
+    }
+    nodes
+        .into_iter()
+        .find(|(_, nvidia)| !nvidia)
+        .map(|(node, _)| node)
+}
+
 pub(crate) fn configure_process_environment(
     command: &mut Command,
     runtime: &Path,
@@ -206,7 +237,33 @@ impl HyprlandSession {
             private,
             filter: None,
         };
-        let mut parent = Command::new("kwin_wayland");
+        let mut parent = match parent_render_node() {
+            Some(node) => {
+                let bwrap = command_path_check("bwrap");
+                if !bwrap.ok {
+                    bail!(
+                        "bwrap is required to keep Hyprland's renderer off the NVIDIA render node"
+                    );
+                }
+                let mut command = Command::new(bwrap.detail);
+                command
+                    .args([
+                        "--dev-bind",
+                        "/",
+                        "/",
+                        "--proc",
+                        "/proc",
+                        "--tmpfs",
+                        "/dev/dri",
+                    ])
+                    .arg("--dev-bind")
+                    .arg(&node)
+                    .arg(&node)
+                    .args(["--unshare-pid", "--die-with-parent", "--", "kwin_wayland"]);
+                command
+            }
+            None => Command::new("kwin_wayland"),
+        };
         configure_process_environment(&mut parent, runtime, "", &options.xauthority_path);
         parent
             .env_remove("WAYLAND_DISPLAY")
diff --git a/src/session/private.rs b/src/session/private.rs
index ededff6..87af4d6 100644
--- a/src/session/private.rs
+++ b/src/session/private.rs
@@ -337,6 +337,22 @@ fn start_private_bus(
     Ok(child)
 }
 
+/// Restrict EGL to Mesa for a software-rendered process. glvnd otherwise
+/// tries the NVIDIA vendor first, which fails or crashes without its devices.
+/// Hosts without Mesa's vendor file keep the default vendor list.
+pub(crate) fn use_mesa_egl(command: &mut Command) {
+    if let Some(vendor) = [
+        "/usr/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d/50_mesa.json",
+        "/etc/glvnd/egl_vendor.d/50_mesa.json",
+    ]
+    .into_iter()
+    .map(Path::new)
+    .find(|path| path.is_file())
+    {
+        command.env("__EGL_VENDOR_LIBRARY_FILENAMES", vendor);
+    }
+}
+
 pub(crate) fn prepare_child(command: &mut Command) {
     let parent = std::process::id();
     command.stdin(Stdio::null()).process_group(0);