AUR As DiscordogitAUR Gord Is Abandoned

Discord is a proprietary, cross-platform, all-in-one voice and text chat application. Many open-source communities have official Discord servers as well. Discord can be used through a web browser or through the desktop application, which is made with Electron.

1 Installation 1.1 Graphical clients 1.1.1 Official applications1.1.2 Official clients using system electron1.1.3 Third-party clients

2.1 GNOME top bar icon2.2 Discord asks for an update not yet available in the repository2.3 Start Discord minimized2.4 Microphone noise suppression using pipewire (Krisp replacement)2.5 Screen sharing with audio2.6 Enabling Developer Tools

3.1 Lagging when scrolling through your guilds3.2 Crackling during voice calls3.3 Screen sharing on Wayland3.4 Enabling rich presence on Flatpak3.5 Discord becomes unresponsive during long calls3.6 Discord freezes after getting pinged or messaged3.7 Notification sounds do not work with Pipewire3.8 Emojis are not rendered correctly3.9 Clicking link does not open the web browser3.10 Sync with computer feature not working3.11 Blurry Discord icon in KDE Plasma system tray3.12 Discord spams systemd journal

Installation

You can use one of the following packages to install the desktop application for Discord:

Graphical clients

Official applications

- Stable: discord- Testing: discord-ptbAUR- Nightly: discord-canaryOfficial clients using system electron

Official clients, using the system provided electron for increased security and performance:

- Stable: discord_arch_electronAUR- Nightly: discord-canary-electron-binAURThird-party clients

Abaddon - An alternative Discord client made with C++/gtkmm.gtkcord4 - GTK4 Discord client in Go.Ripcord - A lightweight, proprietary desktop chat client for group-centric services like Slack and Discord built upon the Qt toolkit.webcord - Wrapper for the web client that improves privacy, and also allows for screensharing on wayland.Command-line clients

There are numerous CLI-based third party clients on the AUR (and non-packaged ones on Github), although most are deprecated or broken. discordo is maintained and packaged on the AUR as discordo-gitAUR. Gord is abandoned, but still accessible on the AUR as gord-gitAUR and gord-binAUR.

Chat client plugins

- By using purple-discord-gitAUR, you can use Discord on graphical or terminal messenger softwares based on libpurple such as Pidgin.- By using bitlbee-discord-gitAUR, you can use Discord via Bitlbee.Custom CSS & plugins

BetterDiscord - A project which allows Discord to be modified to use custom CSS and plugins.Powercord - An alternative client modification for using themes and plugins which requires discord-canary instead of the stable version.Discocss - A simple script that can inject custom CSS into Discord clients. To inject CSS into the discord-ptbAUR and discord-canary versions, replace any mentions of the discord folder with the version in use.Overlay

For Linux clients, Discord does not support in-game overlay. discover-overlayAUR is an open-source GTK application that provides these functions. Discover works on X11 or wlroots environments.

Tips and tricks

GNOME top bar icon

If you would like to have the icon on the top bar of GNOME, install the AppIndicator and KStatusNotifierItem Support extension and libappindicator-gtk3.

Discord asks for an update not yet available in the repository

Discord will refuse to launch if there is an update available. If the updated version is not yet available in the official repos, you can build and install the updated package using the Arch Build System.

To disable the update check, add the following to ~/.config/discord/settings.json:

Or you can cheat. Check for discord's path:

and cd to where the symbolic link points. In this directory (probably /opt/discord/) edit the file resources/build_info.json that should look like:

You can "upgrade" the version, and trick the launcher. All is reset in a future update.

Start Discord minimized

Discord can be started minimized through the --start-minimized argument.

Microphone noise suppression using pipewire (Krisp replacement)

Although Krisp is not available in Linux, you can achieve similar noise reduction level with PipeWire#Noise suppression for voice.

Screen sharing with audio

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Screen sharing with audio is not supported on Linux. Alternatives include:

- For PulseAudio, following PulseAudio/Examples#Remapping select audio sources to obtain a Monitor of source for the program to share, which can be used as input for another instance of Discord running in a browser.Enabling Developer Tools

After a recent update, devtools were disabled by default on Discord for safety reasons. To re-enable them, add this to ~/.config/discord/settings.json:

Troubleshooting

Lagging when scrolling through your guilds

If you experience lags and stutters while scrolling through your guilds please ensure that your hardware acceleration is working correctly. You can do this by opening chrome://gpu in a Chromium based browser. If it is not working please check the chapter on Hardware video acceleration and try running Discord with some additional options:

Crackling during voice calls

If you experience crackling sounds when in voice chat, try the steps outlined in PulseAudio/Troubleshooting#Glitches, skips or crackling.

Screen sharing on Wayland

As of version 0.0.17, the Screen Share feature does not work on Wayland, even when enabling Ozone for Wayland using /usr/bin/discord --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland. See this Reddit post and the Discord bug report.

As a potential future workaround, you may open discord in Chromium/Vivaldi browser and enable PipeWire#WebRTC screen sharing flag. However, it does not work currently (Chrome version 100.0.4896.147). In the left bottom corner you see the message RTC is off.

There is package discord_arch_electron_waylandAUR, however, it also does not work.

There is also webcordAUR which is a 3rd party web wrapper which enables this functionality.

The only other solution currently (May 2022) found is via opening discord.com in a pipewire supported browser. Discord servers

Enabling rich presence on Flatpak

When using the Flatpak version of Discord, Rich Presence will not work out of the box. To make it work, it is necessary to create a symlink from $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/discord-ipc-0 to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/app/com.discordapp.Discord/discord-ipc-0. To create the symlink for the current user session, run:

To automatically create the symlink, systemd-tmpfiles can be used by adding the following line to a file with the .conf extension in ~/.config/user-tmpfiles.d/:

Discord becomes unresponsive during long calls

If Discord becomes unresponsive during long calls, try the --no-sandbox argument. You can also add the following to your .bashrc, or alias file for your shell:

Discord freezes after getting pinged or messaged

If a message that would trigger a notification (pings, DMs, servers with notifications on, etc) causes the client to freeze, the client is failing to find a notification server. To fix it without installing a notifications server, disable Enable Desktop Notifications in the Notifications options.

Notification sounds do not work with Pipewire

See PipeWire#No notification sounds from Discord.

Emojis are not rendered correctly

If you encounter rendering issues regarding emojis (rendering as rectangles for example), discord-canary-electron-binAUR has the appropriate fonts as optional dependencies. You should install ttf-symbolaAUR, noto-fonts-cjk, and noto-fonts-emoji.