Setting up Waydroid only Sessions

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:
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#!/bin/sh
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mutter --wayland &
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sleep 5
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waydroid show-full-ui
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/usr/share/wayland-sessions/mutter.desktop contents:
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[Desktop Entry]
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Name=WayDroid on Mutter
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Comment=Android OS in a container
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Exec=/usr/bin/mutter-session.sh
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Type=Application
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Weston
~/.config/weston.ini contents:
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[libinput]
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enable-tap=true
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​
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[shell]
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panel-position=none
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/usr/bin/waydroid-session.sh contents:
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#!/bin/sh
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weston &
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sleep 3
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konsole -e waydroid show-full-ui
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/usr/share/wayland-sessions/waydroid.desktop contents:
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[Desktop Entry]
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Name=WayDroid on Weston
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Comment=Android OS in a container
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Exec=/usr/bin/waydroid-session.sh
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Type=Application
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Wayfire
/usr/bin/wayfire-session.sh contents:
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#!/bin/sh
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wayfire &
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export DISPLAY=:1
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sleep 5
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waydroid show-full-ui
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/usr/share/wayland-sessions/wayfire.desktop contents:
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[Desktop Entry] 
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Name=waydroid on Wayfire 
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Comment=Android OS in a container 
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Exec=/usr/bin/wayfire-session.sh
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Type=Application
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