Discord-overlay

A Discord PyQT6 app that provide a discord overlay over the windows.

Usage

Install and Run

• Start discord
• Download a release according to your system or build it.
• Run the downloaded release. Warning: Windows may see the application as threat. Click 'More info' then 'Run anyway'.
• Discord will ask you to authorize to access your discord messages and channels. is the official discord app to manage apis/rpc.
• Start the overlay, the frame will be visible, you can hide it using the icon:
• You can also toggle the frame using the systray menu:
• You can resize the frame with the bottom corner button.
• Drag the window using the title bar.

Settings

The setting window can be opened by right clicking on the systemtray icon There few settings:

• Show only Speakers: will hide all people and only show the person that speak.
• Speaker border color: the color of the border of the avatar when someone speak.
• User nickname fontSize: the size of the text of the nicknames.
• User nickanme color: the color of the text of the nicknames.
• User avatar size: the size of the avatars.

build

Windows

1. install python and git:

• https://www.python.org/downloads/
• https://git-scm.com/downloads

2. create a virtualenv python3 -m venv .pyvenv3

3. Source the venv

• windows: .pyvenv\Scripts\Activate

4. clone the sources git clone https://github.com/bashtian-fr/discord-overlay-v2.git

5. install the build deps pip install ".[tests]"

6. Build an executable pip install pyinstaller pyinstaller --icon src/discord_overlay/static/images/icon.ico -n discord-overlay --onefile --windowed src/discord_overlay/scripts/__init__.py --add-data "src/discord_overlay/static/;discord_overlay/static/"

The executable will be create in dist/ folder

Linux/Macos

In progress