Vesktop does not recognize Steam games (arrpc enabled)

[diimon04]

When I play games like Stardew Valley (with Steam), my game activity is not displayed on Vesktop. It works with games like Minecraft. Im on Arch Linux with KDE.
Edit: nvm minecraft is not working either

[ToRRent1812]

I have encountered similar issue

[DerCommander323]

Same for me, Arch linux but with Hyprland. I even tried #92, but it still doesn't work at all. Directly integrating software (for example VSCodium with a discord rpc plugin) works as intended.

[Covkie]

Flatpak doesn't support process detection.

[diimon04]

Flatpak doesn't support process detection.

sorry for not specifying, but im using the aur version (if it is somehow relevant to the issue)

[bombasticman]

I have the same problem on Linux Mint. Games run trough Lutris are fine but my steam games are not detected.

[xaiyadev]

bump.
Vesktop has completly removed adding your own game activy on your own because of beeing just a web implementation...

[Covkie]

@diimon04 Does Stardew Valley have a native Linux port? If so see #108. (If you really need rpc process detection for stardew, force enable proton i guess)
@bombasticman I assume the games you've tried through lutris are all proton/wine. They should work because their process path is the same as native Windows.
@BreakingTV see #52

If any of the games implement IPC rpc (Custom RPC) and are running through proton/wine you need https://github.com/EnderIce2/rpc-bridge/

[PearPony]

It is worth noting that as a workaround one may host arrpc themselves and enable WebRPC plugin in the settings.

[DerCommander323]

It is worth noting that as a workaround one may host arrpc themselves and enable WebRPC plugin in the settings.

That's what I'm doing (how else is it even possible?) and it's not working.

[PearPony]

(how else is it even possible?)

@DerCommander323 What do you mean here 🤨

[DerCommander323]

@DerCommander323 What do you mean here 🤨

I mean how else are you supposed to set up arRPC?

[xaiyadev]

@DerCommander323 What do you mean here 🤨

I mean how else are you supposed to set up arRPC?

In theory it should create its own arRPC instance in the client itself

[PearPony]

In theory it should create its own arRPC instance in the client itself

Vesktop seems to have some sort of limitation that prevents it from scanning for processes it seems (it wasn't the case before though and I wonder why)... It only picks up anything that "emits" a Discord Rich Presence with all of the extra info.

I host arRPC on my own with Node 20 LTS from Homebrew on Linux and it picks up my games normally.

[xaiyadev]

Maybe because of the new rich presence Feature and an old Version of arRPC...
This problem started to occure for me after they started working on the new RPC

[Arcitec]

Well, I have now tried with the latest external arRPC:

• Vesktop: Settings: "Vesktop Settings": Disable "Rich Presence" (arRPC).
• Fully shut down Vesktop to unregister its discord-ipc-0 pipe (which was created by its internal arRPC).
• Start external arRPC manually with Node: node src in the arRPC directory. It should say listening at /run/user/1000/discord-ipc-0.
• Start Vesktop.
• Vesktop: Settings: "Plugins": Enable "WebRichPresence (arRPC)". It should pop up the message "Connected to arRPC" briefly on screen. The arRPC terminal window will say [arRPC > bridge] web connected
• Now start a game. I played a Steam game with Proton. The arRPC terminal window said [arRPC > process] detected game! Grounded.

However, in Vesktop, I still don't become marked as playing that game. So maybe something is bugged in Vencord/Vesktop itself. Because arRPC is detecting the game. And presumably the built-in arRPC inside Vesktop is also detecting the game. It's just not setting the status!

PS: Vesktop already includes the newest arRPC so the theory people had above that it's "outdated" is not true.

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Edit: Could it be because Discord has changed something in its expected RPC protocol and arRPC uses the old protocol, so it no longer works at all? Maybe.