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Program hangs sometimes if discord has been in system tray for a long time.

Open DipeshAggarwal opened this issue 8 months ago • 4 comments

I have been facing this issue intermittently and the only common factor I have managed to find is that it happens when Discord is closed (ie, in the system tray) for a long time.

I managed to isolate the problem to this line https://github.com/Senophyx/Discord-RPC/blob/main/discordrpc/presence.py#L160

enc_header += self.socket.read(header_size)

It seems like when Discord is closed for a long time, the socket enters hibernation and doesn't respond to the request and because of that, the program effectively hangs, waiting for a response.

It can be fixed by opening Discord (from the system tray) but that seems very un-intuitive for end user.

Is there a way to trigger a TimeOut event or something to check if the connection is live?

DipeshAggarwal avatar Jun 13 '24 15:06 DipeshAggarwal