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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

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.

The best lead I have so far is this: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/security#4-handle-session-permission-requests-from-remote-content

It would likely go in splashScreen.js just after the nodeIntegration section. I think you'd use the _electron variable, but I haven't had a chance to mess with it. For now I'll be installing electron19 just to have a working instance, but I'll continue digging into it.

@Thaodan I don't think it's a browser support issue. I think electron 20 changed some default settings around. If there's a way to access chrome://settings (or equivalent) from electron, it should be solvable.

Using Electron20 my micrphone doesn't work. I'm not sure if related but think this browser isn't supported.

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

I figured that one out too. electron20 enabled sandboxing for the renderer by default. It looks like discord doesn't like that. Adding sandbox: false, into app_bootstrap/splashScreen.js in the 'webPreferences' section fixes it, enabling electron20. Did microphone and co work after?

If I read this block from discord https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron-internals-node-integration/ use nodeIntegration sounds like the right call!

@anonfunc

I figured that one out too. electron20 enabled sandboxing for the renderer by default. It looks like discord doesn't like that. Adding sandbox: false, into app_bootstrap/splashScreen.js in the 'webPreferences' section fixes it, enabling electron20.

It looks like putting nodeIntegration: true, may fix it as well, I wonder which option is safer (I'm not quite familiar enough with the inner-workings of electron to really get what nodeIntegration is doing, but maybe someone more knowledgeable than me can figure out the best option).

EDIT: Just tested, and yes, nodeIntegration: true, fixes it as well. My gut instinct is that this is probably the safer option, but I'd prefer someone more familar with this confirm.

@cosandr your patch has clipped lines (the added sed command for example) :)

Did you copy from less or similar pager?

EDIT: By adding .js to that clipped line I can confirm that patch is working fine with electron19. Sadly not with 20, but oh well. 19 should be fine for a decent while.

Patch for electron19 using @Nairaner and @Icronos findings. Works for me on sway 1.7.

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 0069bf6..0a72534 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=('electron19')
 makedepends=('asar')
 optdepends=('libpulse: Pulseaudio support'
             'xdg-utils: Open files')
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ package() {
   rm Discord/resources/app.asar
   sed -i "s|process.resourcesPath|'/usr/lib/$_pkgname'|" Discord/resources/app/app_bootstrap/buildInfo.js
   sed -i "s|exeDir,|'/usr/share/pixmaps',|" Discord/resources/app/app_bootstrap/autoStart/linux.js
+  sed -i "s|^module.paths.*|module.paths = [\"/home/\" + process.env.USER + \"/.config/discord/${pkgver}/modules\"];|" Discord/resources/app/app_bootstrap/requireNative>
   asar p Discord/resources/app Discord/resources/app.asar --unpack-dir '**'
   rm -rf Discord/resources/app

@@ -47,7 +48,7 @@ package() {

   # Create starter script for discord
   echo "#!/bin/sh" > "$srcdir"/$_pkgname
-  echo "exec electron16 /usr/lib/$_pkgname/app.asar \$@" >> "$srcdir"/$_pkgname
+  echo "exec electron19 /usr/lib/$_pkgname/app.asar \$@" >> "$srcdir"/$_pkgname

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

Is it possible to switch to a more recent electron? electron16 just got dropped.