diff --git a/headlessmc-launcher/src/main/java/me/earth/headlessmc/launcher/LauncherProperties.java b/headlessmc-launcher/src/main/java/me/earth/headlessmc/launcher/LauncherProperties.java
index eea8dac..69d5039 100644
--- a/headlessmc-launcher/src/main/java/me/earth/headlessmc/launcher/LauncherProperties.java
+++ b/headlessmc-launcher/src/main/java/me/earth/headlessmc/launcher/LauncherProperties.java
@@ -97,5 +97,6 @@ public interface LauncherProperties extends HmcProperties {
     Property<Boolean> GAME_DIR_FOR_EACH_VERSION = bool("hmc.game.dir.for.each.version");
 
     Property<Boolean> INSTALL_LOGGING = bool("hmc.install.mc.logging");
+    Property<Boolean> CHECK_XVFB = bool("hmc.check.xvfb");
 
 }
diff --git a/headlessmc-launcher/src/main/java/me/earth/headlessmc/launcher/launch/LaunchOptions.java b/headlessmc-launcher/src/main/java/me/earth/headlessmc/launcher/launch/LaunchOptions.java
index 7a409e8..bf18633 100644
--- a/headlessmc-launcher/src/main/java/me/earth/headlessmc/launcher/launch/LaunchOptions.java
+++ b/headlessmc-launcher/src/main/java/me/earth/headlessmc/launcher/launch/LaunchOptions.java
@@ -49,8 +49,12 @@ public LaunchOptionsBuilder parseFlags(
             boolean lwjgl = flag(ctx, "-lwjgl", INVERT_LWJGL_FLAG, ALWAYS_LWJGL_FLAG, args);
             // if offline only allow launching with the lwjgl flag!
             if (!lwjgl && launcher.getAccountManager().getOfflineChecker().isOffline()) {
-                log.warning("You are offline, game will start in headless mode!");
-                lwjgl = true;
+                if (!new XvfbService(launcher.getConfigService(), launcher.getProcessFactory().getOs()).isRunningWithXvfb()) {
+                    log.warning("You are offline, game will start in headless mode!");
+                    lwjgl = true;
+                } else {
+                    log.info("You are offline but running with xvfb, not using headless mode.");
+                }
             }
 
             return this
diff --git a/headlessmc-launcher/src/main/java/me/earth/headlessmc/launcher/launch/XvfbService.java b/headlessmc-launcher/src/main/java/me/earth/headlessmc/launcher/launch/XvfbService.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c12a4ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/headlessmc-launcher/src/main/java/me/earth/headlessmc/launcher/launch/XvfbService.java
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+package me.earth.headlessmc.launcher.launch;
+
+import lombok.Cleanup;
+import lombok.CustomLog;
+import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
+import me.earth.headlessmc.launcher.LauncherProperties;
+import me.earth.headlessmc.launcher.files.ConfigService;
+import me.earth.headlessmc.launcher.os.OS;
+import me.earth.headlessmc.launcher.util.IOUtil;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Locale;
+
+@CustomLog
+@RequiredArgsConstructor
+public class XvfbService {
+    private final ConfigService configService;
+    private final OS os;
+
+    private boolean checked;
+    private boolean runningWithXvfb;
+
+    public boolean isRunningWithXvfb() {
+        if (!checked) {
+            try {
+                runningWithXvfb = checkRunningWithXvfb();
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                log.error(e);
+            } finally {
+                checked = true;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return runningWithXvfb;
+    }
+
+    private boolean checkRunningWithXvfb() throws IOException {
+        if (os.getType() != OS.Type.LINUX || !configService.getConfig().get(LauncherProperties.CHECK_XVFB, false)) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        Process process = new ProcessBuilder().command("ps", "aux").start();
+        @Cleanup
+        BufferedReader reader = IOUtil.reader(process.getInputStream());
+        String output = IOUtil.read(reader);
+        boolean result = output.toLowerCase(Locale.ENGLISH).contains("xvfb");
+        log.info(result ? "Running with xvfb" : "Not running with xvfb");
+        return result;
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/headlessmc-lwjgl/src/main/java/me/earth/headlessmc/lwjgl/redirections/LwjglRedirections.java b/headlessmc-lwjgl/src/main/java/me/earth/headlessmc/lwjgl/redirections/LwjglRedirections.java
index 6283d26..728bdaf 100644
--- a/headlessmc-lwjgl/src/main/java/me/earth/headlessmc/lwjgl/redirections/LwjglRedirections.java
+++ b/headlessmc-lwjgl/src/main/java/me/earth/headlessmc/lwjgl/redirections/LwjglRedirections.java
@@ -277,6 +277,18 @@ public static void register(RedirectionManager manager) {
 
         // 1.20.4 (3?)
         MemReallocRedirections.redirect(manager);
+
+        // Embeddium
+        // https://github.com/3arthqu4ke/headlessmc/issues/208
+        // manager.redirect("Lorg/lwjgl/opengl/GL32C;glFenceSync(II)J", of(1L));
+        // not enough, game now crashes with SIGSEGV, use xvfb for embeddium
+        // v  ~StubRoutines::jlong_disjoint_arraycopy
+        //J 10112 c2 jdk.internal.misc.Unsafe.copyMemory(Ljava/lang/Object;JLjava/lang/Object;JJ)V java.base@17.0.12 (33 bytes) @ 0x00007ea004efdf19 [0x00007ea004efdda0+0x0000000000000179]
+        //j  jdk.internal.misc.Unsafe.copyMemory(JJJ)V+7 java.base@17.0.12
+        //j  sun.misc.Unsafe.copyMemory(JJJ)V+7 jdk.unsupported@17.0.12
+        //j  net.caffeinemc.mods.sodium.api.memory.MemoryIntrinsics.copyMemory(JJI)V+8
+        //j  net.minecraft.class_287.push(Lorg/lwjgl/system/MemoryStack;JILnet/caffeinemc/mods/sodium/api/vertex/format/VertexFormatDescription;)V+47
+        //j  me.jellysquid.mods.sodium.client.render.vertex.buffer.SodiumBufferBuilder.push(Lorg/lwjgl/system/MemoryStack;JILnet/caffeinemc/mods/sodium/api/vertex/format
     }
 
 }