README.md

Discord RPC Bridge for Wine

Simple bridge that allows you to use Discord Rich Presence with Wine games/software.

Works by running a small program in the background that creates a named pipe \\.\pipe\discord-ipc-0 inside the prefix and forwards all data to the pipe /run/user/1000/discord-ipc-0.

This bridge takes advantage of the Windows service implementation in Wine, eliminating the need to manually run any programs.

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Installation & Usage

Installation will copy itself to C:\windows\bridge.exe and create a Windows service.
Logs are stored in C:\windows\logs\bridge.log.

Installing inside a prefix

Wine (~/.wine)

• Double click bridge.exe and click Install.
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• To remove, the same process can be followed, but click Remove instead.

Note, an extra step is needed on MacOS

Lutris

• Click on a game and select Run EXE inside Wine prefix.
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• The same process can be followed as in Wine.

Steam

• Right click on the game and select Properties.
• Under Set Launch Options, add the following:
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• The bridge.sh script must be in the same directory as bridge.exe.

If you use Flatpak

• If you are running Steam, Lutris, etc in a Flatpak, you will need to allow the bridge to access the /run/user/1000/discord-ipc-0 file.

  • By using Flatseal

    • Add xdg-run/discord-ipc-0 under Filesystems category
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  • By using the terminal

    • Per application
      • flatpak override --filesystem=xdg-run/discord-ipc-0 <flatpak app name>
    • Globally
      • flatpak override --user --filesystem=xdg-run/discord-ipc-0

MacOS

The steps for MacOS are almost the same, but due to the way $TMPDIR works, you will have to install a LaunchAgent.

• Download the latest build from the releases
• Open the archive and make the launchd.sh script executable by doing: chmod +x launchd.sh
• To install the LaunchAgent, run ./launchd install and to remove it simply run ./launchd remove.

The script will add a LaunchAgent to your user, that will symlink the $TMPDIR directory to /tmp/rpc-bridge/tmpdir.

Note: You will need to launch the bridge.exe file manually in Wine at least once for it to register and launch automatically the next time.

Compiling from source

• Install the wine, gcc-mingw-w64 and make packages.
• Open a terminal in the directory that contains this file and run make.
• The compiled executable will be located in build/bridge.exe.

Credits

This project is inspired by wine-discord-ipc-bridge.

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