Vencord/Vesktop

Vesktop is a custom Discord App aiming to give you better performance and improve linux support

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updated Oct 7, 2026

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Vesktop

Vesktop is a custom Discord desktop app

Main features:

  • Vencord preinstalled
  • Much more lightweight and faster than the official Discord app
  • Linux Screenshare with sound & wayland
  • Much better privacy, since Discord has no access to your system

Not yet supported:

Installing

Visit https://vesktop.dev/install

Building from Source

You need to have the following dependencies installed:

Packaging will create builds in the dist/ folder

git clone https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop
cd Vesktop

# Install Dependencies
pnpm i

# Either run it without packaging
pnpm start

# Or package (will build packages for your OS)
pnpm package

# Or only build the Linux Pacman package
pnpm package --linux pacman

# Or package to a directory only
pnpm package:dir

Building LibVesktop from Source

This is a small C++ helper library Vesktop uses on Linux to emit D-Bus events. By default, prebuilt binaries for x64 and arm64 are used.

If you want to build it from source:

  1. Install build dependencies:
    • Debian/Ubuntu: apt install build-essential python3 curl pkg-config libglib2.0-dev
    • Fedora: dnf install @c-development @development-tools python3 curl pkgconf-pkg-config glib2-devel
  2. Run pnpm buildLibVesktop
  3. From now on, building Vesktop will use your own build

Vencord/Vesktop

Vesktop is a custom Discord App aiming to give you better performance and improve linux support

TypeScript

8,492

585 commits

updated Oct 7, 2026

See the code

README

Vesktop

Vesktop is a custom Discord desktop app

Main features:

  • Vencord preinstalled
  • Much more lightweight and faster than the official Discord app
  • Linux Screenshare with sound & wayland
  • Much better privacy, since Discord has no access to your system

Not yet supported:

Installing

Visit https://vesktop.dev/install

Building from Source

You need to have the following dependencies installed:

Packaging will create builds in the dist/ folder

git clone https://github.com/Vencord/Vesktop
cd Vesktop

# Install Dependencies
pnpm i

# Either run it without packaging
pnpm start

# Or package (will build packages for your OS)
pnpm package

# Or only build the Linux Pacman package
pnpm package --linux pacman

# Or package to a directory only
pnpm package:dir

Building LibVesktop from Source

This is a small C++ helper library Vesktop uses on Linux to emit D-Bus events. By default, prebuilt binaries for x64 and arm64 are used.

If you want to build it from source:

  1. Install build dependencies:
    • Debian/Ubuntu: apt install build-essential python3 curl pkg-config libglib2.0-dev
    • Fedora: dnf install @c-development @development-tools python3 curl pkgconf-pkg-config glib2-devel
  2. Run pnpm buildLibVesktop
  3. From now on, building Vesktop will use your own build

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