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This is a real shame. I'm using X11 still because Discord doesn't work properly with Wayland, and the alternative (Vesktop) doesn't support keybinds when the wi

by bigstrat2003 1y ago

This is a real shame. I'm using X11 still because Discord doesn't work properly with Wayland, and the alternative (Vesktop) doesn't support keybinds when the window isn't focused. Since my distro (Arch) doesn't support holding back packages, I guess I'll have to switch distros entirely so that my Discord setup stays working. :/

galleywest200 1y ago
I use Discord in-browser on my Arch setup. Seems to work OK.
kataklasm 1y ago
What's not working for you? I have only used Discord a handful of times since switching to wayland and nothing egregious stood out. In fact, I had way no issues at all when I had tons back on X11 with Discord. Could very well be due to my low Discord usage until now though :)
cosarara 1y ago
You can use IgnorePkg in pacman.conf. Things might break, but the feature exists.
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kronicum2025 1y ago
I use Discord App on Arch on KDE on Wayland. What are the issues that you are facing?
ch_123 1y ago
> Discord doesn't work properly with Wayland Is this specifically to do with screen sharing or streaming? I use it purely as a chat client under Wayland and it has generally worked fine. (Now that I think of it, I've had a few weird crashes, but nothing which made it unusable)
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago
  > a few weird crashes To OP's point, assuming it's limited to Wayland, this seems reasonable to call out as "doesn't work properly".
  - prophesi 1y ago
    I think it might be more of a Discord problem. I've experienced "a few weird crashes" on Windows, Mac, and Wayland GNOME. Windows being the most problematic in general.
    - jitl 1y ago
      idk how we can blame some JavaScript and html inside Firefox causing a Wayland crash as Discord’s fault. They’re like 9000 layers of abstraction away from whatever SIGSEGV caused the crash
      - lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago
        > inside Firefox I assume others are talking about the standalone client. Which, to be fair, I assume is also an Electron app but that's Chromium, not Firefox.
      - jorams 1y ago
        > idk how we can blame some JavaScript and html inside Firefox causing a Wayland crash as Discord’s fault I don't see anyone talking about a Wayland crash, it's about Discord crashing.
        jitl 1y ago
        Whoops, I thought I was replying inside this thread tree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46059256 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46059256 > I tried Wayland earlier today on my home lab with Plasma and FreeBSD. It seemed pretty great for a bit and ran my monitor at 120Hz. > Until it hard crashed my machine after I opened discord in firefox. Konqueror crashed on opening. I lost track of the indentation on my phone
ladyanita22 1y ago
Which distro supports partial upgrades? AFAIK no major distro supports it. The only difference between Arch and any other regular distro is simply that in Arch there are no major upgrade versions, so any breaking changes you have to perform them manually. Period. In the rest, they do it for you. But they update key components as well and/or stop getting updated at some point (same as not updating Arch). For example, I am a happy Fedora user, but I don't get why they don't upgrade the Plasma or Gnome version in the same release but they do upgrade the kernel, when the kernel update may bring more breaking changes...

galleywest200 1y ago

I use Discord in-browser on my Arch setup. Seems to work OK.

kataklasm 1y ago

What's not working for you? I have only used Discord a handful of times since switching to wayland and nothing egregious stood out. In fact, I had way no issues at all when I had tons back on X11 with Discord. Could very well be due to my low Discord usage until now though :)

cosarara 1y ago

You can use IgnorePkg in pacman.conf. Things might break, but the feature exists.

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kronicum2025 1y ago

I use Discord App on Arch on KDE on Wayland. What are the issues that you are facing?

ch_123 1y ago

> Discord doesn't work properly with Wayland Is this specifically to do with screen sharing or streaming? I use it purely as a chat client under Wayland and it has generally worked fine. (Now that I think of it, I've had a few weird crashes, but nothing which made it unusable)

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago
> a few weird crashes To OP's point, assuming it's limited to Wayland, this seems reasonable to call out as "doesn't work properly".
- prophesi 1y ago
  I think it might be more of a Discord problem. I've experienced "a few weird crashes" on Windows, Mac, and Wayland GNOME. Windows being the most problematic in general.
  - jitl 1y ago
    idk how we can blame some JavaScript and html inside Firefox causing a Wayland crash as Discord’s fault. They’re like 9000 layers of abstraction away from whatever SIGSEGV caused the crash
    - lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago
      > inside Firefox I assume others are talking about the standalone client. Which, to be fair, I assume is also an Electron app but that's Chromium, not Firefox.
    - jorams 1y ago
      > idk how we can blame some JavaScript and html inside Firefox causing a Wayland crash as Discord’s fault I don't see anyone talking about a Wayland crash, it's about Discord crashing.
      - jitl 1y ago
        Whoops, I thought I was replying inside this thread tree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46059256 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46059256 > I tried Wayland earlier today on my home lab with Plasma and FreeBSD. It seemed pretty great for a bit and ran my monitor at 120Hz. > Until it hard crashed my machine after I opened discord in firefox. Konqueror crashed on opening. I lost track of the indentation on my phone

ladyanita22 1y ago

Which distro supports partial upgrades? AFAIK no major distro supports it. The only difference between Arch and any other regular distro is simply that in Arch there are no major upgrade versions, so any breaking changes you have to perform them manually. Period. In the rest, they do it for you. But they update key components as well and/or stop getting updated at some point (same as not updating Arch). For example, I am a happy Fedora user, but I don't get why they don't upgrade the Plasma or Gnome version in the same release but they do upgrade the kernel, when the kernel update may bring more breaking changes...