ArmCord Flatpak

This is the flatpak for ArmCord. Due to sandbox limitations, it might not function as expected, so some ways to get it working are detailed below:

Tray icons

This flatpak has the appropriate permissions for tray icons out of the box; however, GNOME does not provide native tray icons support out of the box, due to the current specification being horribly outdated and not being sandbox-friendly.

The extension that should be used to obtain tray icons is appindicator-support. Enable this extension and disable any other alternatives and tray icons will function as expected.

Discord Rich Presence

Native applications

A solution that works short-term is to run ln -sf $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/{.flatpak/xyz.armcord.ArmCord/xdg-run,}/discord-ipc-0. For something longer lasting, run the following:

mkdir -p ~/.config/user-tmpfiles.d
echo 'L %t/discord-ipc-0 - - - - .flatpak/xyz.armcord.ArmCord/xdg-run/discord-ipc-0' > ~/.config/user-tmpfiles.d/discord-rpc.conf
systemctl --user enable --now systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service

Now, native applications will be able to use Rich Presence on every system start.

Flatpak applications

Flatpak applications need certain changes inside of the flatpak environment to connect properly:

1. Permission to access $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/.flatpak/xyz.armcord.ArmCord/
2. A symlink at $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/discord-ipc-0 pointing to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/.flatpak/xyz.armcord.ArmCord/xdg-run/discord-ipc-0

Suggested changes to accomplish these needs :

1. Add --filesystem=xdg-run/.flatpak/com.xyz.armcord.ArmCord:create and --filesystem=xdg-run/discord-ipc-* to the global Flatpak permissions
2. Restart