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Hello, I am currently building an arcade machine which is intended to run indie games built natively for Linux.

For that I want to use the wayland protocol because it feels like the most sensible option I have nowadays.

Currently I am using sway as I am already using it as my daily wm and it can be configured very easily into a kiosk mode. Everything works perfect and I have no problems what so ever!

Which is why I want to ask if there is a even more bare minimum setup to run Wayland apps?

I wanted to do the same for a dedicated jellyfin player box; a defunct laptop or mini PC that boots straight into the jellyfin-media-player (jellyfin desktop nowadays) in TV mode and was looking for just the bare minimum of packages to achieve this. gave up, curious how others solved it.

Weston can be configured to use a kiosk shell, which is fairly minimal

The clients for XMPP are really bad. Also, matrix sells itself in a variety of ways, discord alternative, corporate usability, e2ee signal replacement, all that. Although matrix client implementations aren’t that great, the publicity does work. And IRC has historic relevance.