pinephone-sway-poc VS pinephone-scripts

https://github.com/Dejvino/pinephone-sway-poc#components

Some yeah mostly stuff to toggle wofi and squeekboard from waybar. The only complicated one was for rotation which I got from https://github.com/Dejvino/pinephone-sway-poc

If those are still too slow there are plenty of projects working on even lighter window managers like Sway or Sxmo.

Not really, you just install them via the package manager. There is https://github.com/Dejvino/pinephone-sway-poc which has an install script for setting up swaywm with some extra bits (like screen rotation, touch gestures etc) which I looked at and picked out some bits. Parts of it like the lisgd syntax seem out of date and didn't work without updating though.

I've created a script which automatically wakes the phone periodically for a few seconds to check for web messages, it works quite well now: https://github.com/milky-sway/pinephone-scripts

XMPP messaging works very well, but like someone else said, you won't get notifications, when your phone is in sleep mode. Only calls and SMS will wake up the phone. I have made a small script some weeks ago to work around this problem (it doesn't solve it, it's really just a dirty workaround): https://github.com/milky-sway/pinephone-scripts

I made a script called 'sleepwalk' to put the phone to sleep, when the the screen is turned off. This will also work, if waydroid is in use: https://github.com/milky-sway/pinephone-scripts