diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index c051a910..07f6653e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1728,6 +1728,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "objc2-foundation 0.2.2",
  "parking_lot 0.12.5",
  "percent-encoding",
+ "pollster",
  "profiling",
  "raw-window-handle",
  "static_assertions",
@@ -1735,6 +1736,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "wasm-bindgen-futures",
  "web-sys",
  "web-time",
+ "wgpu",
  "windows-sys 0.61.2",
  "winit",
 ]
@@ -5771,6 +5773,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.61.2",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pollster"
+version = "0.4.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2f3a9f18d041e6d0e102a0a46750538147e5e8992d3b4873aaafee2520b00ce3"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "portable-atomic"
 version = "1.15.0"
diff --git a/komorebi-bar/Cargo.toml b/komorebi-bar/Cargo.toml
index 74b6b1da..dae5406e 100644
--- a/komorebi-bar/Cargo.toml
+++ b/komorebi-bar/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ tracing-subscriber = { workspace = true }
 [target.'cfg(windows)'.dependencies]
 komorebi-themes = { path = "../komorebi-themes", default-features = false }
 egui_extras = { workspace = true }
+# a second renderer, wgpu (Direct3D 12, which has the software adapter WARP), for a machine where OpenGL 2.0 is not
+# there; glow stays the first (see `renderer_attempts` in windows/mod.rs). Windows only: the macOS bar has no use for it
+eframe = { workspace = true, features = ["wgpu"] }
 netdev = "0.46"
 regex = "1"
 sysinfo = { workspace = true }