diff --git a/gui-apps/xwayland-satellite/xwayland-satellite-0.4.ebuild b/gui-apps/xwayland-satellite/xwayland-satellite-0.4.ebuild
index df816e2421..e36948bc01 100644
--- a/gui-apps/xwayland-satellite/xwayland-satellite-0.4.ebuild
+++ b/gui-apps/xwayland-satellite/xwayland-satellite-0.4.ebuild
@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ LICENSE+=" Apache-2.0 BSD ISC MIT Unicode-DFS-2016 ZLIB"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 
+# disable tests which need a running display server
+RESTRICT="test"
+
 DEPEND="
 	>=x11-base/xwayland-23.1
 	x11-libs/libxcb
@@ -124,6 +127,8 @@ BDEPEND="
 	sys-devel/clang
 "
 
+QA_FLAGS_IGNORED="usr/bin/${PN}"
+
 DOCS=( README.md )
 
 src_install() {