I tried using Waydroid on Linux Mint (Edge) only to have it not work and realized that it requires Wayland, and Mint uses X11. So I used VirtualBox to install Fedora 40 Gnome which does use Wayland.

I installed Waydroid as per the instructions and am having seemingly the same issue as on Mint. After downloading "Vanilla" Android and clicking "Done" everything exits out. So I launch the Waydroid application but nothing ever happens.

I then try to manually start Waydroid in terminal but always get "ERROR: WayDroid container service is already running". Then I skip to the second step "waydroid session start" but receive "OSError: container failed to start".

Am I doing something wrong? Is it simply because the VM is causing the issues? Or does WayDroid not work well on Fedora? Thanks

  • Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    Waydroid is made for Wayland.

    You can however run it on X-Server,
    through a Wayland session window
    (e.g. KWin_Wayland, Cage, Weston, ...):
    https://docs.waydro.id/faq/setting-up-waydroid-only-sessions

    I wrote a tool to help improve the user experience on X-Server,
    however currently it only supports KDEs Kwin_Wayland:
    https://github.com/Rikj000/XWaydroid

    • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today
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      5 months ago

      This is interesting though at first glance seems a little over my head. I'll read more into it. Thank you.

      PS. This is another comment I can only see and reply to in my inbox. I can't see it on my post. I don't know if this is a Lemmy, server, or Voyager issue.