diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7e604373..c041ca1a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -270,7 +270,10 @@ Either shows at once, since the browser's processes dump no core.
 **Reload** in Sources restarts a page, failed or not. A page's dropdown
 lists, such as a `<select>`'s, draw over it and take clicks under
 **Interact**, but it opens no other windows (`window.open` and new-tab links
-do nothing).
+do nothing). Copy and Cut there put the page's selected text on the clipboard,
+and nothing from a password field. Except for a page copied on the GPU through
+an X display, the text goes as plain text that the page's own copy handlers
+cannot change.
 
 An overlay is a title, lower third, or other graphic written as HTML and CSS,
 drawn by the studio itself (through [Blitz](https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz))
@@ -785,13 +788,13 @@ Sources make the opposite trip. A frame already on the GPU is drawn where it
 lies: PipeWire camera and VA-API decode DMA-BUFs on Linux, given a Vulkan
 driver that imports them, and NV12 capture and VideoToolbox decode surfaces on
 macOS. A browser source's page is copied on the GPU from the shared texture CEF
-paints, given the same Vulkan DMA-BUF import. Every other source, every source
-on Windows or on a GPU that cannot import, and every still image delivers its
-frames from the CPU, which the compositor uploads. A browser source on that
-path renders its page in software, WebGL included, so a WebGL page runs
-slower there, and needs no X server or `$DISPLAY`: it runs under Wayland
-without XWayland, and with no display at all. A page copied on the GPU still
-opens the X display.
+paints, given the same Vulkan DMA-BUF import and a display to paint through:
+the Wayland one when `$WAYLAND_DISPLAY` is set, needing no XWayland, or else
+the X one in `$DISPLAY`. Every other source, every source on Windows or on a
+GPU that cannot import, and every still image delivers its frames from the
+CPU, which the compositor uploads. A browser source takes that path with no
+display at all too, and there renders its page in software, WebGL included, so
+a WebGL page runs slower.
 
 ## Replay
 
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index 1ec288fc..afe902da 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -138,12 +138,10 @@
                 pango
                 stdenv.cc.cc
               ];
-              # Opened at run time rather than linked.
-              runtimeDependencies = with pkgs; [
-                libGL
-                udev
-                vulkan-loader
-              ];
+              # libEGL, which libcef.so opens at run time rather than links:
+              # without it the GPU process cannot start, and pages paint in
+              # memory. runtimeDependencies would reach only executables.
+              appendRunpaths = [ "${lib.getLib pkgs.libGL}/lib" ];
               dontStrip = true;
               installPhase = ''
                 runHook preInstall
diff --git a/quest/m0/README.md b/quest/m0/README.md
index 1437e695..e13ffb5d 100644
--- a/quest/m0/README.md
+++ b/quest/m0/README.md
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ repository.
 - [Browser sources on macOS and Windows](/quest/m0/browser-source.md) - the out-of-process CEF pages Linux has, with shared GPU textures on the other desktops
 - [Web studio](/quest/m0/web.md) - the full studio in wasm on WebGPU and WebCodecs, served from this repository
 - [Virtual camera](/quest/m0/vcam/README.md) - the program or a published scene exposed as a system camera on Linux, Windows, and macOS
-- [Browser sources on the GPU without an X display](/quest/m0/cef-headless.md) - shared-texture pages run under Wayland without XWayland, and with no display the CPU path runs instead
+- [Browser sources on the GPU under Mesa](/quest/m0/cef-headless.md) - shared-texture pages paint on Intel and AMD under Wayland, and a page that cannot paint fails loudly
 - [Signing identities are available](/quest/m0/signing.md) - the Apple and Windows code-signing credentials packaging and the macOS camera need
 - [Packaging](/quest/m0/packaging.md) - signed installers for macOS and Windows and a Flatpak for Linux
 - [The persistable portal restore token is pinned](/quest/m0/pin-portal-token.md) - moq-video's restore token, for Wayland sources
diff --git a/quest/m0/cef-headless.md b/quest/m0/cef-headless.md
index fac245e4..1d7cac36 100644
--- a/quest/m0/cef-headless.md
+++ b/quest/m0/cef-headless.md
@@ -1,34 +1,46 @@
-# [S] Browser sources on the GPU without an X display
+# [S] Browser sources on the GPU under Mesa
 
 ## Goal
 
-Browser sources copied on the GPU (shared DMA-BUF textures) run under a pure
-Wayland session without XWayland, and a studio with no display at all still
-runs its browser sources, as the CPU path already does.
+Browser sources copied on the GPU (shared DMA-BUF textures) paint on Mesa
+drivers (Intel or AMD) under Wayland, as they do on NVIDIA, and a page whose
+GPU path cannot paint fails its source saying why instead of staying
+`Starting`.
 
 ## Plan
 
-From [moq-dev/studio#49](https://github.com/moq-dev/studio/pull/49), picked
-2026-11-05 (maintainer, /quest-plan), m0 by the rule that fixes join m0.
-[moq-dev/studio#55](https://github.com/moq-dev/studio/pull/55) moved the CPU
-path to Chromium's headless Ozone platform and relayed Copy and Cut through
-the studio's clipboard, so only the GPU path still opens an X display.
-
-The GPU path cannot go headless: Chromium's headless Ozone platform allocates
-`TestPixmap`s with no DMA-BUF
-(`ui/ozone/platform/headless/headless_surface_factory.cc`), and in a trial its
-GPU process failed to start EGL without a display, so pages fell back to
-painting into memory (`Paint::Cpu`).
-
-A trial on NixOS (RTX 3070 Ti, NVIDIA 580.178, GNOME on Wayland) on
-2026-11-05 found `--ozone-platform=wayland`, with only `WAYLAND_DISPLAY` set,
-painted shared textures (`Paint::Gpu`), and `a_page_draws_and_plays` passed.
-On the same host the GPU path under XWayland (the default X11 Ozone platform,
-`DISPLAY=:0`) never painted: "Can't create buffer -- gbm device is missing".
-
-Recommended: pick the platform at setup in `Helper::new`, Wayland when
-`WAYLAND_DISPLAY` is set, X11 when only `DISPLAY` is, and the CPU path when
-neither is, which the Sources panel already shows as CPU. Check popups,
-input, and the shared textures on Mesa (Intel or AMD) too, since the trial
-covered only NVIDIA. No CI job has a GPU, so the PR records how it was
-verified.
+[moq-dev/studio#59](https://github.com/moq-dev/studio/pull/59) picks the
+display at setup: Chromium's Wayland Ozone platform when `$WAYLAND_DISPLAY` is
+set, X11 when only `$DISPLAY` is, and the CPU path with neither. It passes the
+browser suite on the GPU path on NVIDIA (RTX 3070 Ti, GNOME on Wayland), and
+on the CPU path with no display on NVIDIA and Intel.
+
+Mesa did not paint in its only trial, on nixos2 (Intel UHD 630, Mesa 26.2.4,
+beside an RTX 2070), under a headless sway on the Intel render node, since no
+desktop session was logged in:
+
+- Wayland: CEF's GPU process starts on Mesa's EGL, but the first shared image
+  fails to allocate ("Unable to allocate frame for first frame capture:
+  OOM?") and the page never paints. The same happens with glvnd pinned to
+  Mesa (`__EGL_VENDOR_LIBRARY_FILENAMES`) and with `--disable-gpu-sandbox`.
+  Release CEF strips the allocation's own log (a `DLOG` in
+  `media/gfx/renderable_mappable_shared_image_video_frame_pool.cc`).
+- X11, under that sway's XWayland: shared textures import, but come back
+  empty (transparent pages, black WebGL).
+- The same headless sway on the NVIDIA render node paints shared textures, so
+  the harness itself works.
+
+First check whether a real Mesa desktop session paints; the headless sway on
+a hybrid host may be the cause. If it does not, find which allocation fails
+(a debug CEF build, or `chrome://gpu` in a CEF client on the same host).
+
+When the capturer cannot allocate, CEF never paints and never says so. Fail
+the page loudly instead, from a signal CEF or Chromium gives (no first-paint
+timeout).
+
+## Waiting
+
+- Maintainer: log into a Wayland desktop session (GNOME or KDE) on a Mesa GPU,
+  such as nixos2's Intel, so an agent can run `binary(browser)` there with that
+  session's `WAYLAND_DISPLAY`. An agent cannot start a logged-in session on a
+  greeter. Check: `loginctl list-sessions` shows a user session on `seat0`.
diff --git a/rs/moq-scene/src/browser/host.rs b/rs/moq-scene/src/browser/host.rs
index 5625ba64..c2c1af24 100644
--- a/rs/moq-scene/src/browser/host.rs
+++ b/rs/moq-scene/src/browser/host.rs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ use cef::*;
 use rustix::process::{Resource, Rlimit, getrlimit, setrlimit};
 
 use super::outbox::Commands;
-use super::protocol::{Area, Channel, Command, Event, Format, Id, Layer, Open, Plane, Raster, Start, Texture};
+use super::protocol::{Area, Channel, Command, Display, Event, Format, Id, Layer, Open, Plane, Raster, Start, Texture};
 use super::{Button, Input, Modifiers};
 
 /// What the helper asks of a page's focused frame: its selection, and whether
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ struct Shared {
 	/// never another page's.
 	painted: Mutex<mpsc::Receiver<()>>,
 	accelerated: bool,
+	/// Whether CEF's own copy reaches the desktop's clipboard: only through
+	/// an X display.
+	native_copy: bool,
 }
 
 impl Shared {
@@ -115,6 +118,13 @@ fn serve() -> Result<(), String> {
 		writer: Mutex::new(writer),
 		painted: Mutex::new(painted),
 		accelerated: matches!(start.raster, Raster::Gpu { .. }),
+		native_copy: matches!(
+			start.raster,
+			Raster::Gpu {
+				display: Display::X11,
+				..
+			}
+		),
 	});
 	// The studio shows why, rather than only that the helper exited.
 	browse(&shared, start, reader, painted_tx).inspect_err(|reason| _ = shared.send(&Event::Fatal(reason.clone()), &[]))
@@ -389,17 +399,20 @@ fn deliver(id: Id, input: Input) {
 /// may be an iframe, to the desktop's clipboard.
 fn copy(browser: &Browser, page: &Paged, cut: bool) {
 	let Some(frame) = browser.focused_frame() else { return };
-	// The GPU path opens a display, whose clipboard CEF's own is, and the
-	// page's copy and cut handlers decide what lands there.
-	if page.shared.accelerated {
+	// Through an X display, CEF's clipboard is the desktop's, and the page's
+	// copy and cut handlers decide what lands there.
+	if page.shared.native_copy {
 		match cut {
 			true => frame.cut(),
 			false => frame.copy(),
 		}
 		return;
 	}
-	// The CPU path opens none, so the frame's renderer answers with its
-	// selection, and the studio puts that on the desktop's clipboard.
+	// Elsewhere CEF's own copy reaches no desktop: headless Ozone, on the CPU
+	// path, has no clipboard, and Wayland's takes a selection only with the
+	// serial of an input event, which an offscreen page never receives. So
+	// the frame's renderer answers with its selection, and the studio puts
+	// that on the desktop's clipboard.
 	let Some(mut message) = process_message_create(Some(&COPY.into())) else {
 		return;
 	};
@@ -477,12 +490,19 @@ wrap_app! {
 				Some(&"no-user-gesture-required".into()),
 			);
 			match &self.raster {
-				// Paint on the studio's GPU, which is the only one it imports
-				// from.
-				Raster::Gpu { render_node: Some(node) } => {
-					command_line.append_switch_with_value(Some(&"render-node-override".into()), Some(&node.as_str().into()));
+				Raster::Gpu { render_node, display } => {
+					let platform = match display {
+						Display::Wayland => "wayland",
+						Display::X11 => "x11",
+					};
+					command_line.append_switch_with_value(Some(&"ozone-platform".into()), Some(&platform.into()));
+					// Paint on the studio's GPU, which is the only one it
+					// imports from.
+					if let Some(node) = render_node {
+						command_line
+							.append_switch_with_value(Some(&"render-node-override".into()), Some(&node.as_str().into()));
+					}
 				}
-				Raster::Gpu { render_node: None } => {}
 				// The pictures come back in memory anyway. Left to find a GPU,
 				// Chromium walks its fallbacks, and one can hang until its
 				// watchdog kills it seconds later, delaying the first paint.
diff --git a/rs/moq-scene/src/browser/mod.rs b/rs/moq-scene/src/browser/mod.rs
index 97b514f4..c16dbcfb 100644
--- a/rs/moq-scene/src/browser/mod.rs
+++ b/rs/moq-scene/src/browser/mod.rs
@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@
 //! executable started again, which calls [`child`] first thing in `main` to
 //! become one; CEF's own subprocesses start the same way. The helper paints
 //! into a shared GPU texture the studio copies on its device, or into memory
-//! the studio uploads when either side cannot share textures ([`Paint`] says
-//! which). Its popups, such as a `<select>`'s list, arrive the same way apart
-//! from the page, and the studio draws them over it. A page's sound joins the
-//! program bus at the bus's rate.
+//! the studio uploads when either side cannot share textures or there is no
+//! display to paint them through ([`Paint`] says which). Its popups, such as a
+//! `<select>`'s list, arrive the same way apart from the page, and the studio
+//! draws them over it. A page's sound joins the program bus at the bus's rate.
 //!
 //! Linux only for now, and only with the `cef` feature: elsewhere a browser
 //! source reports that it is unsupported.
@@ -87,12 +87,9 @@ pub struct Helper {
 	profile: PathBuf,
 	device: wgpu::Device,
 	queue: wgpu::Queue,
-	/// Whether pages paint into shared textures the device imports, rather
-	/// than into memory it uploads.
-	shared: bool,
-	/// The device's DRM render node, which CEF must paint on for the studio to
-	/// import what it paints.
-	render_node: Option<PathBuf>,
+	/// Where pages paint.
+	#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+	raster: protocol::Raster,
 	/// The helper, once a page has started it.
 	#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
 	running: Arc<Mutex<Option<Arc<run::Instance>>>>,
@@ -114,34 +111,22 @@ impl Helper {
 		device: &wgpu::Device,
 		queue: &wgpu::Queue,
 	) -> Self {
-		let info = adapter.get_info();
-		// A software device holds a shared texture in memory anyway, so there
-		// the page paints in software too.
-		let shared = cfg!(feature = "cef")
-			&& info.device_type != wgpu::DeviceType::Cpu
-			&& device
-				.features()
-				.contains(wgpu::Features::VULKAN_EXTERNAL_MEMORY_DMA_BUF);
-		// A machine with two GPUs would otherwise paint on whichever CEF
-		// picks, and the studio cannot import from another GPU.
-		let render_node = (!info.device_pci_bus_id.is_empty())
-			.then(|| std::fs::canonicalize(format!("/dev/dri/by-path/pci-{}-render", info.device_pci_bus_id)).ok())
-			.flatten();
+		#[cfg(not(target_os = "linux"))]
+		let _ = adapter;
 		Self {
 			program: program.into(),
 			profile: profile.into(),
 			device: device.clone(),
 			queue: queue.clone(),
-			shared,
-			render_node,
+			#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+			raster: raster(adapter, device),
 			#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
 			running: Default::default(),
 		}
 	}
 
 	/// Take what a page last copied or cut, once, for the desktop's
-	/// clipboard: a page that paints in memory has no display to put it there
-	/// itself.
+	/// clipboard, which CEF reaches itself only through an X display.
 	#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
 	pub fn copied(&self) -> Option<String> {
 		let running = self.running.lock().unwrap();
@@ -170,13 +155,49 @@ impl Helper {
 	}
 }
 
+/// Where pages paint, decided once from what the studio's device and session
+/// offer.
+#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+fn raster(adapter: &wgpu::Adapter, device: &wgpu::Device) -> protocol::Raster {
+	use protocol::{Display, Raster};
+
+	let info = adapter.get_info();
+	// A software device holds a shared texture in memory anyway, so there the
+	// page paints in software too.
+	let shared = cfg!(feature = "cef")
+		&& info.device_type != wgpu::DeviceType::Cpu
+		&& device
+			.features()
+			.contains(wgpu::Features::VULKAN_EXTERNAL_MEMORY_DMA_BUF);
+	if !shared {
+		return Raster::Cpu;
+	}
+	let set = |name: &str| std::env::var_os(name).is_some_and(|value| !value.is_empty());
+	let display = if set("WAYLAND_DISPLAY") {
+		Display::Wayland
+	} else if set("DISPLAY") {
+		Display::X11
+	} else {
+		// CEF's GPU process cannot allocate shared textures without one.
+		return Raster::Cpu;
+	};
+	// A machine with two GPUs would otherwise paint on whichever CEF picks,
+	// and the studio cannot import from another GPU.
+	let render_node = (!info.device_pci_bus_id.is_empty())
+		.then(|| std::fs::canonicalize(format!("/dev/dri/by-path/pci-{}-render", info.device_pci_bus_id)).ok())
+		.flatten()
+		.and_then(|node| node.into_os_string().into_string().ok());
+	Raster::Gpu { render_node, display }
+}
+
 /// How a page's pictures reach the compositor.
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
 pub enum Paint {
 	/// A shared texture, copied on the GPU.
 	Gpu,
-	/// Pixels in memory, uploaded every frame: the fallback when the page's
-	/// GPU process or the studio's device cannot share textures.
+	/// Pixels in memory, uploaded every frame: the fallback when the studio
+	/// runs with no display, or the page's GPU process or the studio's device
+	/// cannot share textures.
 	Cpu,
 }
 
@@ -317,10 +338,10 @@ pub enum Input {
 	/// Text typed, after the keyboard layout and any input method.
 	Text(String),
 	/// Copy the page's selection to the clipboard, through
-	/// [`Helper::copied`] when it paints in memory.
+	/// [`Helper::copied`] unless the page paints through an X display.
 	Copy,
 	/// Cut the page's selection to the clipboard, through
-	/// [`Helper::copied`] when it paints in memory.
+	/// [`Helper::copied`] unless the page paints through an X display.
 	Cut,
 	/// The page gained or lost keyboard focus.
 	Focus(bool),
diff --git a/rs/moq-scene/src/browser/protocol.rs b/rs/moq-scene/src/browser/protocol.rs
index dbc01953..c46e4da5 100644
--- a/rs/moq-scene/src/browser/protocol.rs
+++ b/rs/moq-scene/src/browser/protocol.rs
@@ -60,8 +60,12 @@ pub(crate) struct Start {
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub(crate) enum Raster {
 	/// On the GPU, into shared textures the studio imports: on the DRM render
-	/// node named, the studio's GPU, or else on the one CEF picks.
-	Gpu { render_node: Option<String> },
+	/// node named, the studio's GPU, or else on the one CEF picks. CEF's GPU
+	/// process needs `display` to allocate them.
+	Gpu {
+		render_node: Option<String>,
+		display: Display,
+	},
 	/// In software, into memory the studio uploads, with no display opened.
 	/// Startup never waits on a GPU process CEF cannot start, and WebGL runs
 	/// on SwiftShader.
@@ -69,6 +73,16 @@ pub(crate) enum Raster {
 	Cpu,
 }
 
+/// The display server the GPU path connects to, the one the studio runs on.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+pub(crate) enum Display {
+	/// `$WAYLAND_DISPLAY`, preferred: under XWayland, CEF's GPU process finds
+	/// no GBM device on some drivers, NVIDIA's among them, and never paints.
+	Wayland,
+	/// `$DISPLAY`.
+	X11,
+}
+
 /// A page to open.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 pub(crate) struct Open {
diff --git a/rs/moq-scene/src/browser/run.rs b/rs/moq-scene/src/browser/run.rs
index 173ec333..cae9a335 100644
--- a/rs/moq-scene/src/browser/run.rs
+++ b/rs/moq-scene/src/browser/run.rs
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ use moq_audio::bus::Channel as Sound;
 
 use super::layers::{Gpu, Layers};
 use super::outbox::Commands;
-use super::protocol::{Area, Channel, Command, Event, Id, Layer, Open, Raster, Start};
+use super::protocol::{Area, Channel, Command, Event, Id, Layer, Open, Start};
 use super::{ARG, Helper, Page, Paint};
 use crate::Error;
 use crate::source::{Mailbox, Picture, Status};
@@ -201,16 +201,7 @@ impl Instance {
 			.and_then(|()| std::fs::set_permissions(&profile, std::fs::Permissions::from_mode(0o700)))
 			.map_err(|err| failed(&format!("cannot create the browser profile {}", profile.display()), err))?;
 		let start = Start {
-			raster: match helper.shared {
-				true => Raster::Gpu {
-					render_node: helper
-						.render_node
-						.as_ref()
-						.and_then(|node| node.to_str())
-						.map(str::to_string),
-				},
-				false => Raster::Cpu,
-			},
+			raster: helper.raster.clone(),
 			profile: profile
 				.to_str()
 				.ok_or_else(|| Error::Browser(format!("the browser profile {} is not UTF-8", profile.display())))?
diff --git a/rs/moq-studio/src/ui.rs b/rs/moq-studio/src/ui.rs
index 19152c8c..188e79c5 100644
--- a/rs/moq-studio/src/ui.rs
+++ b/rs/moq-studio/src/ui.rs
@@ -197,8 +197,9 @@ impl eframe::App for Studio {
 		let framerate = state.compositor.canvas().framerate;
 		ui.ctx().request_repaint_after(Duration::from_secs(1) / framerate);
 		self.panels.follow_reloads(&state);
-		// A page painting in memory copies through the studio's clipboard,
-		// even if the preview let go of the page before the copy came back.
+		// A page not painting through an X display copies through the
+		// studio's clipboard, even if the preview let go of the page before
+		// the copy came back.
 		if let Some(text) = state
 			.sources
 			.context()
@@ -1522,7 +1523,7 @@ impl Panels {
 							}
 							Some(Paint::Cpu) => {
 								ui.colored_label(DEGRADED, "CPU").on_hover_text(
-									"The page is uploaded from memory every frame: its GPU process or this device cannot share textures",
+									"The page is uploaded from memory every frame: there is no display, or its GPU process or this device cannot share textures",
 								);
 							}
 							None => {