| 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 electron30 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: | SunRed |
| Votes: | 190 |
| Popularity: | 3.49 |
| First Submitted: | 2020-05-19 23:51 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2024-06-25 17:38 (UTC) |
Since the update yesterday, I've been unable to launch Discord. I get the following error:
Error launching app
Unable to find Electron app at /usr/lib/discord/app.asar
Error parsing /usr/lib/discord/app.asar/package.json: Unexpected end of JSON input
Guessing Discord is perhaps not compatible with electron 11.0.1 just yet.
Edit: Launching from /usr/lib/discord/app.asar.unpacked worked
I noticed that the Discord window doesn't get the proper icon with this package, opposed to the situation with the discord package.
Does anyone knows how to fix this?
@huyizheng Your updated PKGBUILD works for me, thank you.
@NoXPhasma @MGThePro I created an updated PKGBUILD to resolve this issue. BetterDiscord works fine at least in my case.
# Maintained by johnnyapol (arch@johnnyapol.me)
# Contributors: huyizheng
# 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=4.1
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/$_pkgname
# HACKS FOR SYSTEM ELECTRON
asar e Discord/resources/app.asar Discord/resources/app
rm Discord/resources/app.asar
sed -i "s|process.resourcesPath|'/usr/lib/$_pkgname'|" Discord/resources/app/app_bootstrap/buildInfo.js
sed -i "s|exeDir,|'/usr/share/pixmaps',|" Discord/resources/app/app_bootstrap/autoStart/linux.js
asar p Discord/resources/app Discord/resources/app.asar --unpack-dir '**'
rm -rf Discord/resources/app
# Copy Relevanat data
cp -r Discord/resources/* "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/$_pkgname/
# Create starter script for discord
echo "#!/bin/sh" >> "$srcdir"/$_pkgname
echo "exec electron /usr/lib/$_pkgname/app.asar \$@" >> "$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
}
@NoXPhasma @MGThePro I found a temporary workaround of BetterDiscord:
Run sudo asar p /usr/lib/discord/app /usr/lib/discord/app.asar
Then modify /usr/bin/discord and change /usr/lib/discord/app into /usr/lib/discord/app.asar. Now BetterDiscord should work.
I'm having the same issue as NoXPhasma. Reverting to the second latest PKGBUILD fixed it for me as well.
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.
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.
Pinned Comments
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.