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=== Assistant: Good — that tells us something important. ===
Good — that tells us something important.

If Step 3 (forcing XWayland) didn’t fix it but Discord Web still works, then this is not a simple Wayland toggle issue anymore. At this point, one of these is true:
# Your native Discord package is broken with PipeWire
# xdg-desktop-portal is misbehaving on Plasma
# You’re using the wrong Discord build (native vs flatpak mismatch)
# KDE’s screen portal is stuck (very common)

We’ll go surgical. Follow exactly, in order.

==== Run: ====

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">which discord

</syntaxhighlight>

And:

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">pacman -Qs discord

</syntaxhighlight>

Tell me:
* Is it discord, discord-canary, or flatpak?

⚠️ Don’t skip this — the fix depends on it.

==== This fixes 70% of Plasma streaming bugs. ====

Close Discord.

Then run:

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">systemctl --user stop xdg-desktop-portal
systemctl --user stop xdg-desktop-portal-kde
systemctl --user stop pipewire
systemctl --user stop wireplumber

</syntaxhighlight>

Wait 10 seconds.

Now start them again:

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">systemctl --user start pipewire
systemctl --user start wireplumber
systemctl --user start xdg-desktop-portal
systemctl --user start xdg-desktop-portal-kde

</syntaxhighlight>

Now launch Discord from terminal:

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">DISCORD_USE_WAYLAND=0 discord

</syntaxhighlight>

Test streaming a window, not full screen.

==== Native Arch Discord is notorious for this exact issue. ====

===== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">sudo pacman -S flatpak =====

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===== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">flatpak install flathub com.discordapp.Discord =====

</syntaxhighlight>

===== <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">flatpak run com.discordapp.Discord =====

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➡️ Try streaming.

Why this works:
Flatpak Discord ships newer Electron + correct PipeWire permissions.

==== To avoid conflicts: ====

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">sudo pacman -R discord

</syntaxhighlight>

Keep Flatpak only.

==== Open: ====

<syntaxhighlight>System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen Recording

</syntaxhighlight>

Make sure:
* Discord is allowed
* No global restriction is enabled

==== Run: ====

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">journalctl --user -xe | grep -E "portal|pipewire|discord"

</syntaxhighlight>

If you see errors like:
* Failed to create screencast session
* No such interface org.freedesktop.portal.ScreenCast

👉 paste them here.

==== - Discord native on Arch/Wayland is unreliable ====
* Discord Web works because Chrome is better
* Flatpak Discord is the real fix 9/10 times
* CachyOS + Plasma is NOT the problem

===== 1. Output of which discord =====
# Whether Flatpak Discord works or not

I’ll finish locking this down after that.