Discord Canary Linux Wrapper + Vencord

README.md

This is a very simple wrapper to allow Discord to "auto-update" whenever you launch it. Additionally, the wrapper installs Vencord automatically.

Installation

The wrapper assumes the following things:

• There already is a Discord Canary install in ~/.local/share/DiscordCanary/.
• Zenity is installed.
• VencordInstaller is present on Discord Canary's install folder.

The wrapper can be placed in any directory, but it's recommended to place the wrapper in Discord Canary's install folder. Reminder that you may have to make the wrapper executable.

Update your desktop shortcuts to point to the wrapper rather than the DiscordCanary executable.

Why

Because I don't like Better Discord, Vesktop uses too much ******* RAM of my computer (its bottleneck), and Moonlight hasn't quite hit its potential yet. and the funny h.

discord_canary_wrapper.sh

#!/bin/bash
set -xe
pushd "$HOME/.local/share/DiscordCanary"

# Check for updates
INSTALLED_VERSION="`cat _discord_version || true`"
API_VERSION="`
    curl --head 'https://discordapp.com/api/download/canary?platform=linux&format=tar.gz' \
    | grep '^location: ' | grep --only-matching '[^/]*$'
`"

if [[ "$INSTALLED_VERSION" != "$API_VERSION" ]]; then
    exec 3> >(zenity --progress --no-cancel --pulsate --auto-close --title='Discord Canary' --text='Updating Discord Canary...' --width=400)
    # Download the update
    TEMP_DIR="`mktemp -d`"
    pushd "$TEMP_DIR"
        wget 'https://discordapp.com/api/download/canary?platform=linux&format=tar.gz' --output-document='latest_discord.tar.gz'
        tar --directory="$HOME/.local/share/" --extract --ungzip --file='latest_discord.tar.gz'
    popd
    rm -r "$TEMP_DIR"
    echo "$API_VERSION" > _discord_version
    chmod +x DiscordCanary
    ./VencordInstallerCli-linux -update-self || true
    chmod +x VencordInstallerCli-linux
    ./VencordInstallerCli-linux -install -branch canary
    exec 3<&-
fi

./DiscordCanary --enable-speech-dispatcher \
|| zenity --error --text="Discord Canary failed to launch. Please verify your installation." --title="Discord Canary"

popd