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Vesktop

Troubleshooting

Nothing happens when trying to start a Screenshare

Section titled “Nothing happens when trying to start a Screenshare”

This means you either have no Screen cast portal, or it’s broken. See XDG Desktop Portal on the Arch Linux Wiki for more information.

Vesktop freezes after getting pinged or messaged

Section titled “Vesktop freezes after getting pinged or messaged”

This is due to having no Notification Server on your system. Either install one or disable Desktop Notifications in Discord Notification settings

Section titled “Clicking link does not open the web browser”

Install xdg-utils

Vesktop looks blurry

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The most likely cause is that Vesktop is running in XWayland; Try running in Wayland instead.

See Tips & Tricks - Wayland Support for more information.

Some videos don’t play or only play audio

Section titled “Some videos don’t play or only play audio”

This happens because these videos use the HEVC encoding. Follow these steps to enable support:

  1. Verify that you have working VA-API with HEVC decode support:
    Terminal window
    vainfo 2>/dev/null | grep HEVC | grep VAEntrypointVLD
    If there is no output, it’s not supported.
  2. If it’s not supported, try to install it and repeat step 1. You need exactly VA-API, not VDPAU or NVDEC.
  3. Run Vesktop with the following flags:
    Terminal window
    vesktop --enable-features=VaapiIgnoreDriverChecks,Vulkan,DefaultANGLEVulkan,VulkanFromANGLE,VaapiOnNvidiaGPUs
    To make this permanent, see Tips & Tricks - Making Command Line Flags Permanent.