discord-dynamic-status-wayland

Dynamic Discord Rich Presence for Hyprland & Niri (Wayland). Automatically updates your Discord status based on the active window.

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✨ Features

• Shows the current active window in Discord
• Supports any application (settings in config.toml)
• Lightweight and fast (Rust)
• Works on Hyprland & Niri (Wayland)
• NixOS and any arch-like distributive are supported

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🎮 Run

1. Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/kazuha046/discord-dynamic-status-wayland.git
cd discord-dynamic-status-wayland
cargo run --release

2. Configure config.toml (in the ~/.config/dynamic-drpc-wayland)

[settings]

# Discord Application ID
# Get it from: Discord Developer Portal -> Applications -> Your App -> General Information
app_id = "1460605258072985705"


# Current Wayland compositor / window manager
# Supported values:
# - niri
# - hyprland
wm = "niri"


# Delay before updating Discord RPC after changing window
# Helps avoid too many RPC updates
update_delay = 3



# Default Rich Presence rule
# This rule is used when no application-specific rule matches
[default]

# Text shown as the first line of Discord Rich Presence
state = "Chilling"

# Text shown as the second line of Discord Rich Presence
details = "At the workspace"


# Large image displayed in Discord
# Supports templates:
# {pretty_os} - full OS name (example: "NixOS 26.11 (Zokor)")
# {os}        - OS identifier (example: "nixos")
large_text = "{pretty_os}"
large_image = "{os}"


# Small image displayed in Discord
# {wm} will be replaced with current window manager name
small_text = "{wm}"
small_image = "{wm}"



# Application-specific Rich Presence rule
# Section name is used as the Discord asset name
# Example:
# [classes.ghostty] -> small_image = "ghostty"
#
# "match" is the real Wayland application class
# You can find it using tools like:
# - `niri msg windows`
# - `hyprctl clients`
[classes.ghostty]

# Wayland class used to detect the application.
# By default, it uses the section name (`classes."name"`).
match = "com.mitchellh.ghostty"


# Custom Rich Presence for Ghostty
state = "At ghostty"
details = "Writing command lines"

# You can also override another default settings
# If a setting is not specified here, the value from the default section will be used
small_text = "Ghostty with Fish"



# Example:
[classes.code]
state = "At VSCode"
details = "Developing some programs"
small_text = "VSCode"

Important: use your Application ID from Discord Developer Portal, not a bot token.

• I have also already added all images in the current default config using my App ID

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🏗 Installation

Directly build with Rust using Git

1. Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/kazuha046/discord-dynamic-status-wayland.git
cd discord-dynamic-status-wayland

2. Build the app

cargo build --release

3. Copy executable to local bin

cp target/release/discord-dynamic-status-wayland ~/.local/bin/
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/discord-dynamic-status-wayland

4. Use and you can add the program to startup in Niri / Hyprland

discord-dynamic-status-wayland 

AUR

Use yay -S dynamic-drpc-wayland-bin or yay -S dynamic-drpc-wayland-git and you can add the program to startup in Niri / Hyprland

NixOS

Using flake with home-manager

1. Add the flake input in your flake.nix:

{
  inputs = {
    dynamic-drpc-wayland = {
      url = "github:kazuha046/discord-dynamic-status-wayland";
      inputs.nixpkgs.follows = "nixpkgs";
    };
  };
}

2. Pass flake inputs to home-manager

Make sure your home-manager configuration receives flake inputs:

{
  home-manager = {
    users.your-user = import ./home.nix;

    extraSpecialArgs = {
      inherit inputs;
    };
  };
}

3. Import the home-manager module in your home.nix:

{
  imports = [
    inputs.dynamic-drpc-wayland.homeManagerModules.default
  ];
}

4. Enable the service:

{
  services.dynamic-drpc-wayland = {
    enable = true;
  };
}

5. Apply the configuration:

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --flake /etc/nixos/#your-host

The service will be started automatically through systemd --user.

6. Configuration

The service generates ~/.config/dynamic-drpc-wayland/config.toml

You can configure default status and application rules: Go to Settings

{
  services.dynamic-drpc-wayland = {
    enable = true;

    settings = {
      app_id = "YOUR_APP_ID";
      wm = "niri";
      update_delay = 3;
    };

    default = {
      state = "Chilling";
      details = "At the workspace";

      large_text = "{pretty_os}";
      large_image = "{os}";
    };

    classes = {
      ghostty = {
        match = "com.mitchellh.ghostty";

        state = "At ghostty";
        details = "Writing command lines";
        small_text = "Ghostty with Fish";
      };
    
      code = {
        state = "At VSCode";
        details = "Developing some programs";
        small_text = "VSCode";
      };
    };
  };
}

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🛠 Troubleshooting

• Discord must be online and not in Invisible mode
• All assets in config.toml must exist in Discord Developer Portal → Art Assets
• Of course, you should have an internet connection :)

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📝 License

MIT License — see LICENSE