  We investigate the formation of waveguides for Rydberg excitons in
Cu$_\text{2}$O from cylindrical stressors as alternatives to optical traps. We
show that the achievable potential depths can easily reach the meV and the trap
frequencies the GHz regimes. For Rydberg excitons, we find that it is
sufficient to consider only the shift of the band gap, whereas the excitonic
binding energies remain almost unchanged.
