Discord

The official app:

• Stable: discord
• Testing: discord-ptb^AUR
• Nightly: discord-canary

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

• Stable: discord_arch_electron^AUR
• Nightly: discord-canary-electron-bin^AUR

Third-party clients:

• ripcord^AUR, see the Ripcord article for more information

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-git^AUR. Gord is abandoned, but still accessible on the AUR as gord-git^AUR and .

• By using purple-discord-git^AUR, you can use Discord on graphical or terminal messenger softwares based on such as Pidgin.
• By using , you can use Discord via Bitlbee.

BetterDiscord is a project which allows Discord to be modified to use custom CSS and plugins. It can be installed through the Electron-based installer or betterdiscordctl-git^AUR management utility.

Powercord is an alternative client modification for using themes and plugins which requires discord-canary instead of the stable version. It can be installed via the package, the package contains modifications that allow it to work with a system-wide electron install.

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

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

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:

  "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true

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

file $(which discord)

and cd to where the symbolic link points. In this directory (probably ) edit the file that should look like:

{
  "releaseChannel": "stable", 
  "version": "0.0.13"
}

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

Discord can be started minimized through the argument.

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

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.

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:

  "DANGEROUS_ENABLE_DEVTOOLS_ONLY_ENABLE_IF_YOU_KNOW_WHAT_YOURE_DOING": true

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 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:

$ discord --ignore-gpu-blocklist --disable-features=UseOzonePlatform --enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder --use-gl=desktop --enable-gpu-rasterization --enable-zero-copy

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

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 . To create the symlink for the current user session, run:

$ ln -sf {app/com.discordapp.Discord,$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/discord-ipc-0

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

L %t/discord-ipc-0 - - - - app/com.discordapp.Discord/discord-ipc-0

If Discord becomes unresponsive during long calls, try the argument. You can also add the following to your .bashrc, or alias file for your shell:

alias discord='discord --no-sandbox'

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.

If you encounter rendering issues regarding emojis (rendering as rectangles for example), discord-canary-electron-bin^AUR has the appropriate fonts as optional dependencies. You should install ttf-symbola^AUR, , and .

If clicking a link does not open a tab in your default web browser, you should install the optional dependency.

Discord is parsing the following file to find which theme to apply:

$HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

and it is looking for these specific lines:

[Settings]
gtk-theme-name=Adwaita-dark

If you change the theme from Adwaita-dark to Adwaita, then Discord will automatically change to light version and vice-versa.

Note that Discord only supports a few popular themes, so if it doesn't work for your particular theme (in this example with Materia theme), a "dirty" fix would be to put the following in your settings.ini file:

[Settings]
gtk-theme-name=Adwaita-dark
gtk-theme-name=Materia-dark

The definition order is important because GTK will use the second variable definition so in this case Materia-dark but Discord will still successfully detect that you are using a dark theme by providing Adwaita-dark in the first variable definition of the GTK theme.

You can attempt to fix this issue by installing to replace , which is known to cause this issue.