sensorphalanx / gtkcord3

gtkcord

A lightweight Discord client which uses GTK3 for the user interface.

It's time to ditch the Discord Electron application (soon).

• Lighter than the official Discord application
• Faster than the official Discord application
• Uses less system resources than the official Discord application
• Is just as easy to use as the official Discord application
• Uses your prefered GTK theme

Build gtkcord

Required: go (1.13+), gtk

1. Set the TOKEN variable to your Discord key

(The developer of gtkcord is currently working on a login, so that you no longer need to set the TOKEN variable.)

You can find this key by:

• Press F12 in when Discord is open (to open the Inspector).
• Press F5 to refresh the page and go to the Network tab.
• Search api library and look for the "Authorization" header in the right column.
• Copy this token.

2. Compile and run GtkCord

export TOKEN="<your copied token here>"
go run .

Current features

• See a list with Discord servers
  • Folders
  • Async loading
• See a list of channels
  • Server banner
  • Async loading
• See the messages of the selected channel
  • Emojis
  • Async loading
  • Message reactions
  • Rich content
    • Images
    • Embeds
• Send messages
  • Message reactions
• Graphical login
  • Graphical logout
• Hamburger menu
  • User avatar view
  • Change the visibility of your online state
    • Custom Rich Presence
    • Rich Presence IPC server
  • About dialog

Low priority

• Options menu with the same options which Discord has
• Voice chat support

Known Bugs/Limitations

• Emojis always appear large
• Random crashes
• Thread (un)safety with Xorg/xcb
• Rampant concurrency
• Semaphore limits