Enable Discord Rich Presence (eg. playing games, listening to spotify, etc)

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Enable Discord Rich Presence in Bazzite/Bluefin/Aurora

  • Makesure you have Discord installed
  1. Use BoxBuddy to create an arch distrobox, I used the bazzite variation.

It took me around 10mins to set it up
Youtube video tutorial for distrobox:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m0YfIiypwA

  1. Install Yay on your arch distrobox:
sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si
  1. Install Owner avatar linux-discord-rich-presence
yay -Syu linux-discord-rich-presence
  1. Test
linux-discord-rich-presence -c ~/.config/linux-discord-rich-presencerc
  1. Export the distrobox binary so you can use it directly from your native terminal
 distrobox-export --bin /usr/bin/linux-discord-rich-presence --export-path $HOME/.local/bin
  1. Configure it to start at every login
mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user
nano ~/.config/systemd/user/discord-rich-presence.service

Add this to the file and save

[Unit]
Description=Discord Rich Presence Service

[Service]
Type=simple
[Unit]
Description=Discord Rich Presence Service

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/home/{YOUR_USERNAME}/.local/bin/linux-discord-rich-presence -c %h/.config/linux-discord-rich-presencerc

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Replace {YOUR_USERNAME} with your actual username

  1. Enable and Start the service
systemctl --user enable discord-rich-presence.service
systemctl --user start discord-rich-presence.service
  1. Test
systemctl --user status discord-rich-presence.service

You should get an output like the following it should say “active” instead of “failed”

discord-rich-presence.service - Discord Rich Presence Service
     Loaded: loaded (/var/home/sam/.config/systemd/user/discord-rich-presence.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/user/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2024-06-07 18:20:15 UTC; 15min ago

PS. If it shows failed, make sure you replace your actual username with “{YOUR_USERNAME}” in step 6. And run the following commands to reload and test again:

systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user restart discord-rich-presence.service
systemctl --user status discord-rich-presence.service

PSS. If it still shows failed use the follwing command to find the correct path and use it in step 6 instead of “/home/{YOUR_USERNAME}/.local/bin/linux-discord-rich-presence”:

which linux-discord-rich-presence

Cheers!

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I’ve followed this tutorial and confirmed the arRPC is running properly but it’s still not working. Does this work differently with Equibop and other vencord based discord installs? Any assistance would be appreciated.

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