The 'you can install linux, arcan and durden and then run normal applications' assertion is correct. That's how I am using it. The screenshots were taken on OSX

The 'you can install linux, arcan and durden and then run normal applications' assertion is correct. That's how I am using it. The screenshots were taken on OSX because that was the only handy thing I could do the video recording on at the time. It's possible to 'test it out' with X/libsdl as a backend. The actual setup is a bit hairy on most distributions because everything brings in X as a dependency, but I have both Alpine Linux and Ubuntu16.04 running it here without X (or dbus or pulseaudio or systemd or ...) Here [1] is some proof and [2] are my rough notes on how I did that. The whitelist part is entirely optional, it's only there for really security paranoid stuff later on (sandboxing policies and chain-of-trust starting). ARCAN_CONNPATH=durden /some/bin style 'launching' is entirely possible. The second to last slide goes into the relation with Wayland, but there will be support for connecting applications that speak wayland, and other protocols for that matter. [1] http://cubeupload.com/im/lmBeMk.png http://cubeupload.com/im/lmBeMk.png [2] https://github.com/letoram/arcan/wiki/linux-egl https://github.com/letoram/arcan/wiki/linux-egl