Setting up Waydroid only Sessions

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For some projects, you might want to have Linux only for backend or maintenance related tasks, while using the Waydroid full-screen UI as the main interface.

This document will review changes required for setting up wayland sessions for a full-screen Waydroid experience.
Setting Up
In order to set this up, you will need to create a few files, depending on your default wayland session manager. 
Please create the files detailed by their contents using the contents below
Mutter
/usr/bin/mutter-session.sh contents:
#!/bin/sh
mutter --wayland &
sleep 5
waydroid show-full-ui
/usr/share/wayland-sessions/mutter.desktop contents:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=WayDroid on Mutter
Comment=Android OS in a container
Exec=/usr/bin/mutter-session.sh
Type=Application
Weston
~/.config/weston.ini contents:
[libinput]
enable-tap=true
​
[shell]
panel-position=none
/usr/bin/waydroid-session.sh contents:
#!/bin/sh
weston &
sleep 3
konsole -e waydroid show-full-ui
/usr/share/wayland-sessions/waydroid.desktop contents:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=WayDroid on Weston
Comment=Android OS in a container
Exec=/usr/bin/waydroid-session.sh
Type=Application
Wayfire
/usr/bin/wayfire-session.sh contents:
#!/bin/sh
wayfire &
export DISPLAY=:1
sleep 5
waydroid show-full-ui
/usr/share/wayland-sessions/wayfire.desktop contents:
[Desktop Entry] 
Name=waydroid on Wayfire 
Comment=Android OS in a container 
Exec=/usr/bin/wayfire-session.sh
Type=Application

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