RPC with native discord, flatpak heroic

"native discord" but I really mean an arRPC server running and discord in a chromium browser (which does work like native discord app would)

what kind of tweaks do I need to do to get RPC working? heroic is flatpak but discord is native

CommandMC•7/3/23, 12:31 PM

Communication with Discord is done via a 3rd party library. Internally, this talks to an IPC socket at $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/discord-ipc-0$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/discord-ipc-0 (along with some other paths). Is this socket present on your install?

The full list of path can be found at https://github.com/discordjs/RPC/blob/9e7de2a6d917591f10a66389e62e1dc053c04fec/src/transports/ipc.js#L16-L23

progressive-amaranthOP•7/3/23, 1:32 PM

i'm pretty sure it is, yes

CommandMC•7/3/23, 1:34 PM

Follow https://github.com/flathub/com.discordapp.Discord/wiki/Rich-Precense-(discord-rpc)#flatpak-applications then

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CommandMC•7/3/23, 1:35 PM

(to clarify, make those changes yourself with (1) Flatseal and (2) by simply adding that symlink)

progressive-amaranthOP•7/3/23, 1:36 PM

i was wondering about that, but

Ask the applications maintainers to do this, don't do it yourself to ensure you continue to get updates.

this point suggests that heroic should do this

progressive-amaranthOP•7/3/23, 1:36 PM

or is that something the flatpak app can't do?

CommandMC•7/3/23, 1:38 PM

We cannot control which path is picked by the library, someone would have to add support on their end

You might even be able to just give Heroic access to XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/discord-ipc-0XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/discord-ipc-0

progressive-amaranthOP•7/3/23, 1:39 PM

why doesn't heroic ask for the permission upon install?

CommandMC•7/3/23, 1:40 PM

Oh, I just noticed, we already do: https://github.com/flathub/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/blob/master/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl.yml#L36
So symlinking the file ($XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/discord-ipc-0$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/discord-ipc-0 -> $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/app/com.discordapp.Discord/discord-ipc-0$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/app/com.discordapp.Discord/discord-ipc-0) is all you need to do, and we can't do that (since we can't access it)

progressive-amaranthOP•7/3/23, 1:42 PM

i see, let me try

CommandMC•7/3/23, 1:42 PM

Hang on, seems like this is also done by the install script
https://github.com/flathub/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/blob/93d2c4fa5c37d7f0b8a2ba2fbd8045a51500202d/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl.yml#L167-L169

CommandMC•7/3/23, 1:44 PM

Hm, those links that are created don't seem to point to any valid sockets... Wonder why this wasn't an issue before
I'll look into it in a few hours

Bbrilliant-lime Hang on, seems like this is also done by the install script https://github.com/f...

brilliant-lime•7/3/23, 1:46 PM

Added that a while ago according to the doc of discord flathub

brilliant-lime•7/3/23, 1:46 PM

Maybe the files changed?

progressive-amaranthOP•7/3/23, 3:52 PM

https://github.com/flathub/xyz.armcord.ArmCord#flatpak-applications
armcord (a discord wrapper with arRPC) seems to suggest different steps to take with a different path for the symlink

i couldn't make rpc from heroic flatpak work myself tho

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CommandMC•7/3/23, 4:05 PM

Are those not the exact same steps?

NNocccer Maybe the files changed?

CommandMC•7/3/23, 4:05 PM

Files are still in those places, they're just... not there in the runtime

progressive-amaranthOP•7/5/23, 8:30 AM

thanks for looking into it, I hope this can be fixed or that there's at least a workaround that can be done (but i think heroic might need a patch since my setup works fine)

RPC with native discord, flatpak heroic

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