enderice2/rpc-bridge

Enable Rich Presence between your Wine applications and the native Discord client on Linux and macOS.

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.

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

On macOS, follow these instructions.

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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rpc-bridge's Issues

Provide a script to pass along to steam launch arguments

Similar to https://github.com/0e4ef622/wine-discord-ipc-bridge/blob/master/winediscordipcbridge-steam.sh I'd be curious if it's possible to instead use a script to invoke this project instead of installing a service through wine.

Mac Support

It is possible to add support for Darwin systems? I may have done a mistake in setting up the bridge but I am not certain.