BeautifulDiscord but without hot-reloading because maybe that's what's causing this bug...?
python3 -m pip install -U -e git+ssh://git@github.com/atrnh/BeautifulDiscord.git@main#egg=BeautifulDiscord
Just invoke the script when installed. If you don't pass the --css flag, the stylesheet
will be placed wherever the Discord app resources are found, which is not a very convenient
location.
NOTE: Discord has to be running for this to work in first place. The script works by scanning the active processes and looking for the Discord ones.
(yes, this also means you can fool the program into trying to apply this to some random program named Discord)
$ beautifuldiscord --css C:\mystuff\myown.css
0: Found DiscordPTB.exe
1: Found DiscordCanary.exe
Discord executable to use (number): 1
Done!
You may now edit your C:\mystuff\myown.css file,
which will be reloaded whenever it's saved.
Relaunching Discord now...
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Pass the --revert flag to restore Discord to its initial state. You can also do this manually if your Discord
install gets screwed up, by first locating where Discord stores its resources:
- On Windows, it's
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\discord[ptb,canary]\<version>\modules\discord_desktop_core - On OSX, it's
~/Library/Application Support/discord[ptb,canary]/<version>/modules/discord_desktop_core - On Linux, it's
~/.config/discord[ptb,canary]/<version>/modules/discord_desktop_core
(<...> means it's required, [...] means it's optional)
In that folder, there should be four files, with core.asar and original_core.asar being the interesting ones.
You should then remove the existing core.asar and rename original_core.asar to core.asar.
$ beautifuldiscord --revert
0: Found DiscordPTB.exe
1: Found DiscordCanary.exe
Discord executable to use (number): 1
Reverted changes, no more CSS hot-reload :(
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You can also run it as a package - i.e. python3 -m beautifuldiscord - if somehow you cannot
install it as a script that you can run from anywhere.