The ability to exclude games from being detected by discord

Raven

Discord keeps detecting one of my background softwares as a game, ShareX, which is a software to take screenshots with, and now with the addition of Go Live, discord suggests me to live stream ShareX when nothing else is running, being in the way and not letting me stream whatever else may be running cause discord detects ShareX instead, it's honestly very annoying and i don't see why discord would even detect a background software. Not only does it detect this software as a game, but very often it also mistakes ShareX as another game, for example i was playing minecraft and after i closed it discord said i was still playing minecraft, after i checked the directory of the software it was detecting it aid ShareX.

Because of an issue such as this the ability to exclude softwares from being detected, or at least excluding discord from caring and displaying them would be very useful, it's kind of frustrating when it displays me playing something when i'm not doing anything.

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  • PejorativeSaint

    I have a similar problem: I run Symless Synergy (https://symless.com/synergy) to share a single keyboard and mouse with several PCs over my LAN and Discord reports that I'm playing Synergy (https://store.steampowered.com/app/17520/Synergy/) on all my servers Despite my steam install being on a completely different drive (C:\Program Files\Synergy vs D:\Steam).

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  • Bannan

    I have the same problem with symless synergy being detected as a game.

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  • Saurbaum

    This has been reported as an issue for at least 2 years now and Discord appear to have no intention of doing anything about it. 

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  • PejorativeSaint

    No they do not; I submitted a ticket and was told unless they received a lot of complaints from the community it wouldn't ever be fixed

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  • Zeith

    Same with SteamVR

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  • otikscypi
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    Discord is recognizing the apps by process names.
    For Synergy it detects GUI, that is running in the foreground.
    The actual program that allows for mouse&keyboard&else sharing is called synergyd (which stands for synergy deamon). It is running as a background process, independently from GUI.

    That gives you two workarounds (I am using the latter):
    - changing the name of synergy.exe, e.g. for synergy_.exe <- this may brake other things like auto update, autostart and windows menu shortcut. But you can do this if you need GUI.
    - closing the synergy after it is setup by using File->Quit.

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  • Saurbaum

    Second one doesn't work for me. It still picks up synergy and claims I'm playing it.

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