Package Details: discord_arch_electron 0.0.75-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/discord_arch_electron.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: discord_arch_electron
Description: Discord using system provided electron for increased security and performance
Upstream URL: https://discord.com
Keywords: chat discord discord-stable discordapp electron video voice
Licenses: custom
Conflicts: discord
Provides: discord
Submitter: johnnyapol
Maintainer: Zoddo (Thaodan, SunRed)
Last Packager: Zoddo
Votes: 195
Popularity: 5.09
First Submitted: 2020-05-19 23:51 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-11-19 19:20 (UTC)

Dependencies (9)

Required by (25)

Sources (3)

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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-electron package 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):
  • Switched back to the main electron package (electron22)
  • Watching cameras and streams is working again
Starting with 0.0.20-1 (2022-09-15):
  • Bumped electron16 to electron19 (I still have blocking issues with electron20)
  • Added support for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/discord-flags.conf: this works like electron-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.

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MGThePro commented on 2020-11-24 12:11 (UTC)

I'm having the same issue as NoXPhasma. Reverting to the second latest PKGBUILD fixed it for me as well.

NoXPhasma commented on 2020-11-22 18:30 (UTC)

The changes in the last version (0.0.12-4) broke the support for BetterDiscord for me. It still works in the package from the repositories and the previous AUR build.

johnnyapol commented on 2020-11-19 14:36 (UTC)

Thanks @huyizheng, I've gone ahead and tested it and it worked fine for me, I've pushed 0.0.12-4 to incorporate this.

huyz commented on 2020-11-19 06:07 (UTC)

Well, after I extract Discord's app.asar, I found that the file build_info.json and discord.png is only used once. So instead of hacking these files into system electron's directory, perhaps it's better to just hack Discord's app.asar itself to point these files to Discord's directory.

This hack is easy, just run asar e app.asar app to extract app.asar, then modify app_bootstrap/buildInfo.js and app_bootstrap/autoStart/linux.js and change the path of these two files.

Here's my new PKGBUILD that applies this hack:

# Maintained by johnnyapol (arch@johnnyapol.me)
# Based off the discord community repo PKGBUILD by Filipe Laíns (FFY00) <lains@archlinux.org>

pkgname=discord_arch_electron
_pkgname=discord
pkgver=0.0.12
pkgrel=3
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://discordapp.com'
license=('custom')
depends=('electron')
makedepends=('asar')
optdepends=('libpulse: Pulseaudio support'
            'xdg-utils: Open files')
source=("https://dl.discordapp.net/apps/linux/$pkgver/$_pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
        'LICENSE.html::https://discordapp.com/terms'
        'OSS-LICENSES.html::https://discordapp.com/licenses')
sha512sums=('c5009e022cac0b76d39cc125a98b9dd3d7a5827dd7d733c5578237b99b746aeccc1cd253aafa99e2a237bd82ef71ee42011f864059aa5ee62812488dbd82f511'
             SKIP
             SKIP)

prepare() {
  cd Discord

  sed -i "s|Exec=.*|Exec=/usr/bin/$_pkgname|" $_pkgname.desktop
  echo 'Path=/usr/bin' >> $_pkgname.desktop
}

package() {
  # Install the app
  install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/$_pkgname

  # HACKS FOR SYSTEM ELECTRON
  asar e Discord/resources/app.asar Discord/resources/app
  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

  # Copy Relevanat data
  cp -r Discord/resources/*  "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/$_pkgname/
  rm "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/$_pkgname/app.asar

  # Create starter script for discord
  echo "#!/bin/sh" >> "$srcdir"/$_pkgname
  echo "exec electron /usr/lib/$_pkgname/app \$@" >> "$srcdir"/$_pkgname

  install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/{bin,share/{pixmaps,applications}}
  install -Dm 755 $_pkgname "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/$_pkgname

  cp Discord/discord.png "$pkgdir"/usr/share/pixmaps/$_pkgname.png
  cp Discord/discord.desktop "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications/$_pkgname.desktop

  # Licenses
  install -Dm 644 LICENSE.html "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE.html
  install -Dm 644 OSS-LICENSES.html "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/OSS-LICENSES.html
}

Sukid commented on 2020-11-12 05:47 (UTC)

Thank you so much for this. Combined with electron-ozone Discord is working better than it ever has on any platform for me!

IS it possible to get other electron apps running this way? Would love it for lbry in particular.

LiveLM commented on 2020-10-31 21:48 (UTC)

Thanks for making this! For some reason, the regular Discord package is very laggy for me. This performs way better.

johnnyapol commented on 2020-10-22 14:04 (UTC)

Hey @codicodi, version discord_arch_electron-0.1.12-3 has that now. Thanks for the suggestion!

codicodi commented on 2020-10-22 12:00 (UTC)

It would be nice if the shell wrapper (/usr/bin/discord) had an exec electron .... The way it is now, shell process stays up for no reason until discord is closed.

Hanabishi commented on 2020-10-22 11:36 (UTC)

The day when this package shine has come :)
Because Electron included in the official client doesn't work anymore.

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