diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/wa/wayvr/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/wa/wayvr/package.nix
index d120bb8db6ce..4264bf2cd5aa 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/wa/wayvr/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/wa/wayvr/package.nix
@@ -18,11 +18,13 @@
   pkg-config,
   procps,
   pulseaudio,
+  replaceVars,
   rustPlatform,
   shaderc,
   stdenv,
   testers,
   wayvr,
+  xwayland-satellite,
   withOpenVR ? !stdenv.hostPlatform.isAarch64,
 }:
 rustPlatform.buildRustPackage (finalAttrs: {
@@ -36,6 +38,12 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage (finalAttrs: {
     hash = "sha256-0llU19bFJJ4yJvA6eGzOzyW8TnnurTS9js3/r+UAVCQ=";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    (replaceVars ./use-system-xwayland-satellite.patch {
+      xwayland-satellite = lib.getExe xwayland-satellite;
+    })
+  ];
+
   cargoHash = "sha256-yUHLtB3/cBEWVAN1vuGLLlLFqJ25ucIy6qqInTGaOvA=";
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/wa/wayvr/use-system-xwayland-satellite.patch b/pkgs/by-name/wa/wayvr/use-system-xwayland-satellite.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3f539add55e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/wa/wayvr/use-system-xwayland-satellite.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+diff --git a/wayvr/src/backend/wayvr/client.rs b/wayvr/src/backend/wayvr/client.rs
+index 734e8b68..17058705 100644
+--- a/wayvr/src/backend/wayvr/client.rs
++++ b/wayvr/src/backend/wayvr/client.rs
+@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ impl WayVRCompositor {
+     ) -> anyhow::Result<Self> {
+         let (wayland_env, listener) = create_wayland_listener()?;
+ 
+-        let xwayland_satellite = Command::new(bundled_executable("xwayland-satellite"))
++        let xwayland_satellite = Command::new("@xwayland-satellite@")
+             .arg(wayland_env.display_num_string())
+             .env("WAYLAND_DISPLAY", wayland_env.wayland_display_num_string())
+             .spawn()
+@@ -468,11 +468,3 @@ fn accumulate_discrete_scroll(acc: &mut f32, delta_v120: i32) -> i32 {
+ 
+     steps
+ }
+-
+-/// Runs executable from APPDIR, falling back to PATH
+-fn bundled_executable(name: impl AsRef<std::path::Path>) -> PathBuf {
+-    match std::env::var_os("APPDIR") {
+-        Some(appdir) => PathBuf::from(appdir).join("usr").join("bin").join(name),
+-        None => PathBuf::from(name.as_ref()),
+-    }
+-}