I was just fiddling with some weirdness with Steam and Xwayland on my Labwc desktop, and i noticed that if i kill Xwayland it causes the official Discord to crash despite using --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland flags.
After killing Xwayland and relaunching Discord I noticed it spawned a new Xwayland process. Out of curiosity i did sudo chmod -x /usr/bin/Xwayland to make it so that Xwayland can't launch and sure enough Discord will not launch:
22:04:54.851 › Initializing voice engine with audio subsystem: standard
[WebContents] crashed (reason: crashed, exitCode: 139)... reloading
blackbox: 5/6/2026, 10:04:54 PM PDT 9 ❌ render-process-gone { reason: 'crashed', exitCode: 139 }
22:04:55.169 › [FAST CONNECT] wss://gateway.discord.gg/?encoding=etf&v=9&compress=zstd-stream, encoding: etf, version: 9
blackbox: 5/6/2026, 10:04:55 PM PDT 10 ✅ webContents.did-finish-load web2
22:04:55.288 › [libdiscore] [experiment_manager] Loaded experiments from cache
22:04:55.294 › [libdiscore] [BlockedDomainsStore] Deserialized 42574 hashes, revision 2842
22:04:55.480 › Initializing voice engine with audio subsystem: standard
[WebContents] double crashed (reason: crashed, exitCode: 139)... RIP =(
blackbox: 5/6/2026, 10:04:55 PM PDT 11 ❌ render-process-gone { reason: 'crashed', exitCode: 139 }
blackbox: 5/6/2026, 10:04:55 PM PDT 12 before-quit
[50086:0506/220455.551639:ERROR:ui/events/platform/wayland/wayland_event_watcher.cc:47] libwayland: warning: queue 0x7dc00bb8280 destroyed while proxies still attached:
[50086:0506/220455.551702:ERROR:ui/events/platform/wayland/wayland_event_watcher.cc:47] libwayland: wl_shm_pool#62 still attached
I tried searching around for this but everyone seems to say that it should run Discord native with the flags, officially as of about a year or so ago, but this doesn't seem to be the case? Xwayland is still a requirement? Or is there another way to make it truly Wayland native without Xwayland? I know I can run 3rd party clients and I probably will but I am now curious.
EDIT: i recently discovered that an issue I had with 3rd party PWA/browser clients -- an inability to connect to voice channels -- was due to my wireguard VPN being active (official client worked fine with VPN active). so now that i sorted that out i can easily use the 3rd party clients exclusively and don't have to use the official client.
not that it was ever a real issue, as i usually have steam running in xwayland already anyway. just a curiosity.