diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4d71f40..eb78aef 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ async-signals = "0.4"
 color-eyre = "0.6"
 futures-util = "0.3"
 libc = "0.2"
+sendfd = { version = "0.4.1", features = ["tokio"] }
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1"
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }
diff --git a/src/comp.rs b/src/comp.rs
index 666ec1b..f88a7f3 100644
--- a/src/comp.rs
+++ b/src/comp.rs
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only
 use crate::process::{ProcessEvent, ProcessHandler};
+use sendfd::SendWithFd;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 use std::{collections::HashMap, os::unix::prelude::IntoRawFd};
 use tokio::{
-	io::{AsyncBufReadExt, BufReader, Lines},
-	net::{unix::ReadHalf, UnixStream},
+	io::{AsyncBufReadExt, AsyncWriteExt, BufReader, Lines},
+	net::{
+		unix::{ReadHalf, WriteHalf},
+		UnixStream,
+	},
 	sync::{
 		mpsc::{self, unbounded_channel},
 		oneshot,
@@ -16,7 +20,7 @@ use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
 #[serde(rename_all = "snake_case", tag = "message")]
 pub enum Message {
 	SetEnv { variables: HashMap<String, String> },
-	NewPrivilegedClient { fd: u32 },
+	NewPrivilegedClient,
 }
 
 async fn receive_event(rx: &mut mpsc::UnboundedReceiver<ProcessEvent>) -> Option<()> {
@@ -57,21 +61,39 @@ async fn receive_ipc(
 					.expect("failed to send environmental variables");
 			}
 		}
-		Message::NewPrivilegedClient { fd } => {
+		Message::NewPrivilegedClient => {
 			unreachable!("compositor should not send NewPrivilegedClient")
 		}
 	}
 	Some(())
 }
 
+async fn send_fd(session_tx: &mut WriteHalf<'_>, stream: UnixStream) {
+	let fd = {
+		let std_stream = stream
+			.into_std()
+			.expect("failed to convert stream to std stream");
+		std_stream
+			.set_nonblocking(false)
+			.expect("failed to set stream as nonblocking");
+		std_stream.into_raw_fd()
+	};
+	let json = serde_json::to_string(&Message::NewPrivilegedClient).unwrap();
+	session_tx.write_all(json.as_bytes()).await.unwrap();
+	let _ = session_tx.write(&['\n' as u8]).await.unwrap();
+	let tx: &UnixStream = session_tx.as_ref();
+	tx.send_with_fd(&[], &[fd]).expect("failed to send fd");
+}
+
 pub async fn run_compositor(
 	token: CancellationToken,
+	mut socket_rx: mpsc::UnboundedReceiver<UnixStream>,
 	env_tx: oneshot::Sender<Vec<(String, String)>>,
 ) {
 	let mut env_tx = Some(env_tx);
 	let (tx, mut rx) = unbounded_channel::<ProcessEvent>();
 	let (mut session, comp) = UnixStream::pair().expect("failed to create pair of unix sockets");
-	let (session_rx, session_tx) = session.split();
+	let (session_rx, mut session_tx) = session.split();
 	let mut session = BufReader::new(session_rx).lines();
 	let comp = {
 		let std_stream = comp
@@ -93,6 +115,9 @@ pub async fn run_compositor(
 			},
 			exit = receive_ipc(&mut session, &mut env_tx) => if exit.is_none() {
 				break;
+			},
+			Some(socket) = socket_rx.recv() => {
+				send_fd(&mut session_tx, socket).await;
 			}
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index f0211ad..56b8bfd 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ mod process;
 use async_signals::Signals;
 use color_eyre::{eyre::WrapErr, Result};
 use futures_util::StreamExt;
-use tokio::sync::oneshot;
+use tokio::sync::{mpsc, oneshot};
 use tokio_util::sync::CancellationToken;
 use tracing::metadata::LevelFilter;
 use tracing_subscriber::{fmt, prelude::*, EnvFilter};
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
 
 	let token = CancellationToken::new();
 	let (env_tx, env_rx) = oneshot::channel();
-	tokio::spawn(comp::run_compositor(token.child_token(), env_tx));
+	let (socket_tx, socket_rx) = mpsc::unbounded_channel();
+	tokio::spawn(comp::run_compositor(token.child_token(), socket_rx, env_tx));
 	let env_vars = env_rx
 		.await
 		.expect("failed to receive environmental variables");