Legcord stopped showing up as a system tray icon after latest stable update

scotty65 · 25 August 2026 11:03

As legcord is an AUR package, did you remember to rebuild it after the system update? AUR packages often require rebuilding after system updates to ensure they link correctly to updated system libraries and other packages.

I noticed that the prebuilt version legcord-bin does have some recent comments on its AUR page which you might want to browse through, including this one:

ofluffydev commented on 2026-02-27 11:32 (AEDT) (edited on 2026-02-27 11:41 (AEDT) by ofluffydev)

legcord-bin breaks for me on every update due to an issue in the shipped launcher script.

From what I can tell, the packaging templates legcord.sh like this:
_OPTIONS="@options@"
...
exec electron@electronversion@ "${_RUNNAME}" "${_OPTIONS}" ...
and the PKGBUILD substitutes @options@ with:
env ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=auto
That means the installed wrapper ends up passing "env ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=auto" as a literal argument to Electron instead of executing it as env ... electron.... On Hyprland this results in Legcord launching and immediately exiting / no window.

I’ve been going in locally and picking apart /usr/bin/legcord to fix it after each update, but obviously that gets overwritten again.

I haven’t modified/patched an AUR package before (only tinkered with local pacman repos for custom archiso), so I’m not 100% sure of the proper way to submit a fix right now. I’ll attempt to fix the PKGBUILD/launcher on my end, but I’m leaving this comment for the maintainer since it seems like a packaging bug.

Suggested fix: make the env part a command prefix, e.g.:
exec env ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=auto electron@electronversion@ "${_RUNNAME}" ...
(or adjust the template to exec @options@ electron... and avoid quoting/passing it as an argv token).

EDIT: Here’s a patch file thingy if you’d like, you might have to regen checksums but it should fix the problem. Also I notice @TSTdoll mentioned this issue, maybe stop re-adding it on new updates? I’ve even thrown in a comment to remind whoever edits it in the future…

diff --git a/legcord.sh b/legcord.sh index 753d12d..34fcf5c 100644 — a/legcord.sh +++ b/legcord.sh @@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ set -e _APPDIR=“/usr/lib/@appname@” _RUNNAME=“${_APPDIR}/@runname@” -_OPTIONS=“@options@” +# NOTE: @options@ expands to something like: +# env ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=auto +# It must be used as a command prefix (not passed as an electron arg). +_OPTIONS=@options@ export PATH=“${_APPDIR}:${PATH}” export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=“${_APPDIR}/swiftshader:${_APPDIR}/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}” export ELECTRON_IS_DEV=0 @@ -33,7 +36,7 @@ if [[ “${_WAYLAND_OPTION}” == true ]]; then fi cd “${_APPDIR}” if [[ “${EUID}” -ne 0 ]] || [[ “${ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE}” ]]; then - exec electron@electronversion@ “${_RUNNAME}” “${_OPTIONS}” “${flags[@]}” “$@” || exit $? + exec ${_OPTIONS} electron@electronversion@ “${_RUNNAME}” “${flags[@]}” “$@” || exit $? else - exec electron@electronversion@ “${_RUNNAME}” “${_OPTIONS}” --no-sandbox “${flags[@]}” “$@” || exit > -fi \ No newline at end of file + exec ${_OPTIONS} electron@electronversion@ “${_RUNNAME}” --no-sandbox “${flags[@]}” “$@” || exit $? +fi

If legcord-bin is installed on your system, then you might want to look at replacing it with the legcord package:

pamac build legcord

to see if it works better on your system. The prebuilt legcord-bin binary would have been built against Arch packages, and as you are on Manjaro Stable branch, there could be issues due the packages not being up-to-date with Arch.

I just built legcord on my Unstable branch system and it launched without any issues. It doesn’t display a tray icon though even though I switched it on in the settings, however that could be due to me not setting up any accounts. But you might want to see if it works okay on your system.

Also, it is normally recommended that users wanting to install AUR packages should switch to Unstable branch (they can often be okay on Testing branch, which is usually about a week behind Arch).

Required reading for using the AUR: