I can not get rpc working on vesktop flatpak version on linux I have followed this https://github.com/flathub/dev.vencord.Vesktop/ and still no game activity. I have asked many times on there discord but with no help…
I am open to changing discord clients to whatever etc if someone has one to suggest
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I think the feature has been disabled in the latest versions of Discord. There are other site threads about it speculating that they are “testing something.” Testing being a shittier app, maybe.
I used to use rich presence until people started being creeps and using to stalk me. Turned it off and won’t be using it ever again.
Dang it still works for my friends on windows I can’t seem to get it to work no matter what client I use on Linux
They’ve also never bothered to support streaming audio on Linux. Fwiw, if anyone reading this uses discord on Linux and has hit this, please add a comment/vote for this ticket. It already has over 3x the votes of the next highest Voice & Video feedback ticket, but maybe we just need it to compete with the 10k+ vote tickets.
Or create a viable alternative to discord, that would also be fine with me.
Edit: link to the issue
Webcord runs the discord website on a more updated version of electron, and supports sharing audio.
From what I can tell they are working on updating their electron version to one that is aware of pipewire, this is the first part of solving the issue (especially for Wayland folks), the second part is just fixing some code in the client to deal with that and then it should be fixed until we deprecate pipewire in 2079. Additionally it would make discord finally act as a native Wayland app instead of being forced in xwayland.
Seems like they should already have a pulseaudio version working by now. Or I guess someone told electron that pipewire was going to replace pa, so they held off on any support whatsoever?
They could bother with pulse, but IDK how portable the API for that is, also discord working on Linux is more accidental and this getting fixed might just be because they want it fixed on the Mac side too.
It’s sad to see that discord has waited over 8 years to do this, but the whole thing is soydev code anyways.
Do you have a link?
Shoot, can’t believe I forgot that. Here it is
If you can self-host, there are alternatives.
I haven’t used Discord in 6 years.
There is Element or Matrix or whatever the fuck that shit is called. Supposedly a better discord but the UI is so fucking bad and confusing it makes no sense.
I guess revolt and guilded are the next best options? But I am not sure how they work on Linux
Matrix is the protocol, Element is one of the messaging clients that uses it.
I don’t think matrix supports game streaming. revolt voice chat didn’t even work for me, which made sense because it had a big “warning, this is deprecated, a replacement is being worked on”. Don’t know if they finished it. Never heard of guilded.
I used guilded for like 2 days. I used to be still on Windows back then, but it seemed like it was working decently.
check vesktop, they got audio working for stream
Probably paywalling it lmao
Try to move off discord completely if you can. Of course you will get this answer on c/linux, and that’s because it’s true.
I don’t use the Flatpak, but for me the rpc doesn’t seem to work for Steam games, it seems to work for everything else that supports it though.
