Here's a full patch (based on the last few comments) for electron20 support. I've tested it myself on Arch with all the latest KDE/wayland packages, and the following flags (may not be necessary anymore): --ignore-gpu-blocklist --enable-gpu-rasterization. I'm pretty sure that the sed command that I added could be cleaner, but I'm lazy
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 0069bf6..42d6c95 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -5,14 +5,14 @@
pkgname=discord_arch_electron
_pkgname=discord
pkgver=0.0.19
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
pkgdesc="Discord (popular voice + video app) using the system provided electron for increased security and performance"
arch=('x86_64')
provides=('discord')
conflicts=('discord')
url='https://discord.com'
license=('custom')
-depends=('electron16')
+depends=('electron')
makedepends=('asar')
optdepends=('libpulse: Pulseaudio support'
'xdg-utils: Open files')
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ package() {
rm Discord/resources/app.asar
sed -i "s|process.resourcesPath|'/usr/lib/$_pkgname'|" Discord/resources/app/app_bootstrap/buildInfo.js
sed -i "s|exeDir,|'/usr/share/pixmaps',|" Discord/resources/app/app_bootstrap/autoStart/linux.js
+ sed -i "s|^ nodeIntegration: false| nodeIntegration: true|" Discord/resources/app/app_bootstrap/splashScreen.js
+ sed -i "s|^module.paths.*|module.paths = [\"/home/\" + process.env.USER + \"/.config/discord/${pkgver}/modules\"];|" Discord/resources/app/app_bootstrap/requireNative.js
asar p Discord/resources/app Discord/resources/app.asar --unpack-dir '**'
rm -rf Discord/resources/app
@@ -47,7 +49,7 @@ package() {
# Create starter script for discord
echo "#!/bin/sh" > "$srcdir"/$_pkgname
- echo "exec electron16 /usr/lib/$_pkgname/app.asar \$@" >> "$srcdir"/$_pkgname
+ echo "exec electron20 /usr/lib/$_pkgname/app.asar \$@" >> "$srcdir"/$_pkgname
install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/{bin,share/{pixmaps,applications}}
install -Dm 755 $_pkgname "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/$_pkgname
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SunRed commented on 2024-06-09 20:34 (UTC)
After a chat with @Zoddo and me just taking too long to come back to this, there should everything now be included that was in my old
discord-electronpackage some migrated from (Krisp patcher, Wayland, autostart fix). Additionally I replaced the scrappy rizin patcher with a Python script someone from the nix community kindly made available.Instead of checking against a checksum to know whether the Krisp binary was patched the script is run on every start of the client that results in slightly longer start times but has the advantage that we don't have to update the package if Discord ever silently updates the binary between client updates over their modules api.
Cheers
Zoddo commented on 2022-09-15 17:54 (UTC) (edited on 2023-03-31 17:24 (UTC) by Zoddo)
Starting with 0.0.26-1 (2023-03-31):
Starting with 0.0.20-1 (2022-09-15):
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/discord-flags.conf: this works likeelectron-flags.conf, you can set in this file the command line flags you want to pass to electron when running Discord (there are some useful flags in the wiki, especially if you are experiencing lag in the Discord UI).FAQ
Discord requires an update, but this package isn't yet updated
Check the wiki.
The Discord UI is lagging
Try to add the flags recommended in the wiki in
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/discord-flags.conf.Krisp not working
This is an issue that will likely never be fixed for this package. The Krisp module checks if Discord binaries are signed by Discord, which is not the case with this package.
See this comment and this GitHub issue for more details and possibles workarounds.