Enabling Discord RPC for WINE Games

Published: July 13, 2023 | Updated: July 13, 2023

Since Wine doesn’t offer a native “native” interface for games running under it to connect to the Discord Rich Presence listener on Linux, here’s a short guide on how to make RPC work.

I used this method on Arch Linux, though it should work the same on all other distros too.

How-to

Download this tarball by Marc3842h
Extract its content to /opt/discord-rpc
Make sure you have the bin32 and the bin64 directories in /opt/discord-rpc
Open a terminal and append the locations of bin32 and bin64 directories to the WINEDLLPATH environment variable using the following command export WINEDLLPATH=$WINEDLLPATH:/opt/discord-rpc/bin64:/opt/discord-rpc/bin32
Run winetricks/protontricks, select your wine prefix (default prefix if using protontricks), and run winecfg
Head to the libraries tab, and add a new override for library by typing in discord-rpc and clicking add. Hit Apply, and then OK
Run your game the way you usually would, and RPC should be working now

Note: This has to be done for each game individually. There might be a way to set it up for all wineprefixes at once, but I’m not aware of how to do that.