diff --git a/client/ui/CLAUDE.md b/client/ui/CLAUDE.md
index fe927c1d7..d7f9101b2 100644
--- a/client/ui/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/client/ui/CLAUDE.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ This is the Wails v3 desktop UI for NetBird. Go services live in `services/`; th
 ### Go (top-level package `main`)
 - `main.go` — app entry. Builds the shared gRPC `Conn`, constructs services, registers them with Wails, creates the main webview window, then starts (in order) the Linux SNI watcher → tray → `peers.Watch` → `app.Run`. CLI flags: `--daemon-addr`, `--log-file` (repeatable; first user-provided value drops the seeded `console` default), `--log-level` (`trace|debug|info|warn|error`, default `info`).
 - `tray.go` — `Tray` struct + menu. Subscribes to `EventStatus`, `EventSystem`, `EventUpdateAvailable`, `EventUpdateProgress`. Owns per-status icon/dot, Profiles submenu, Connect/Disconnect swap, About → Update, session-expired toast.
-- `tray_linux.go` — `init()` sets `WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1` to avoid the blank-white window on VMs / minimal WMs.
+- `tray_linux.go` — `init()` sets `WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1` (blank-white window on VMs / minimal WMs) and `WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1` (Intel/Mesa SIGSEGV in `g_application_run` via unimplemented DRM-format-modifier paths — DMABUF-disable alone doesn't cover the GL compositor). Both are skipped if the user already set the var. Also `WEBKIT_DISABLE_SANDBOX_THIS_IS_DANGEROUS=1` when unprivileged userns are blocked.
 - `tray_watcher_linux.go`, `xembed_host_linux.go`, `xembed_tray_linux.{c,h}` — in-process SNI watcher + XEmbed bridge for minimal WMs. See `LINUX-TRAY.md`.
 - `signal_unix.go` / `signal_windows.go` — `listenForShowSignal`. Unix uses SIGUSR1; Windows uses a named event `Global\NetBirdQuickActionsTriggerEvent`. Mirrors the legacy Fyne UI's external-trigger contract so the installer / CLI keep working.
 - `grpc.go` — lazy, mutex-protected gRPC `Conn` shared by every service. `DaemonAddr()`: `unix:///var/run/netbird.sock` on Linux/macOS, `tcp://127.0.0.1:41731` on Windows.
diff --git a/client/ui/tray_linux.go b/client/ui/tray_linux.go
index f732cbc9c..042b40e1b 100644
--- a/client/ui/tray_linux.go
+++ b/client/ui/tray_linux.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 // init runs before Wails' own init(), so the env vars are set in time.
 func init() {
 	disableDMABUFRenderer()
+	disableCompositingMode()
 	disableWebKitSandboxIfNeeded()
 }
 
@@ -26,6 +27,23 @@ func disableDMABUFRenderer() {
 	_ = os.Setenv("WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER", "1")
 }
 
+// disableCompositingMode turns off WebKitGTK's accelerated (GL) compositing
+// path. Disabling the DMA-BUF renderer alone is not enough on some Intel
+// setups: WebKitGTK 2.52 still drives the GPU through the GL compositor, and
+// Mesa's anv/i965 hits unimplemented DRM-format-modifier code paths
+// ("FINISHME: support YUV colorspace with DRM format modifiers" /
+// "...multi-planar formats...") that crash with a SIGSEGV inside
+// g_application_run before the first frame paints. Forcing compositing off
+// makes WebKit render on the CPU, which is fine for a small UI like this and
+// sidesteps the broken modifier path. The user can re-enable it by setting
+// WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE themselves (e.g. to "0").
+func disableCompositingMode() {
+	if os.Getenv("WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE") != "" {
+		return
+	}
+	_ = os.Setenv("WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE", "1")
+}
+
 // disableWebKitSandboxIfNeeded works around WebKitGTK crashing at startup when
 // its bubblewrap (bwrap) sandbox can't create an unprivileged user namespace —
 // "bwrap: setting up uid map: Permission denied" followed by "Failed to fully