#cs2-presence

Discord doesn't recognise the native Linux build of Counter-Strike 2, so your status stays empty while you play. cs2-presence fixes that with a full Rich Presence card under Playing Counter-Strike 2:

Where	What it shows
Details	Mode, map and the score from your side: Competitive · Dust II · 7–5
State	Your K/A/D and MVPs, or kills/deaths/points in Deathmatch; Warmup, Halftime, Won/Lost, Overtime
Party	Round progress in Competitive, Premier and Wingman: (13 of 24)
Big picture	The map, with the map file, round, freeze time and bomb status on hover
Small picture	Your team (CT/T), with health, armour, helmet and money on hover, or who you're watching when dead
Timer	Time on the current map (time since launch in the menu)
Button	Your Steam profile (others see it, you don't)

In the main menu it shows In the main menu and your in-game name. When the game closes, the status clears.

• One small Python script, standard library only, no Discord token or login: it talks to the Discord client on your own machine through its local RPC socket, the way games do.
• Match details come from CS2's own Game State Integration, the Valve-supported feed that tournament overlays use. It isn't a cheat and doesn't touch the game's memory.
• Works with the Discord client, Vesktop/arRPC, and the Flatpak or Snap Discord.
• Checks every 5 seconds whether cs2 runs as your user. It costs nothing while you aren't playing.

#Install

git clone https://github.com/Tjabooo/cs2-presence.git
cd cs2-presence
./install.sh

This puts cs2-presence in ~/.local/bin and enables a systemd user service that starts with your graphical session. Logs: journalctl --user -u cs2-presence.

Start the service before CS2 (it writes the Game State Integration config, which the game reads at launch). If CS2 was already running when you installed, restart the game once to get match details.

Discord must allow it: User Settings → Activity Privacy → Share your detected activities with others on. Discord shows only one game activity at a time, the one that connected first: if another game (for example Roblox through Sober) is already showing, CS2 stays hidden until that one closes.

Remove: systemctl --user disable --now cs2-presence && rm ~/.local/bin/cs2-presence ~/.config/systemd/user/cs2-presence.service, then delete gamestate_integration_cs2_presence.cfg from CS2's game/csgo/cfg folder.

#How it works

It finds a process whose comm and executable are both cs2 and that is owned by you, and takes the game's start time from /proc.

At startup it writes gamestate_integration_cs2_presence.cfg into CS2's game/csgo/cfg folder in every Steam library it finds (native, Flatpak and Snap Steam). CS2 then posts the game state (map, round, your player) to http://127.0.0.1:3713/ about once a second while it changes; set CS2_PRESENCE_PORT in the service to use another port. Your own stats are remembered while the game reports the player you're spectating.

It connects to the first Discord IPC socket it finds ($XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/discord-ipc-*, or inside app/*/ for Flatpak, snap.discord*/ for Snap) and sends SET_ACTIVITY with Discord's own Counter-Strike 2 application ID. Updates go out when something changes, at most every 4 s (Discord's limit is 5 per 20 s), and every 30 s regardless, so the activity survives Discord restarting. It's cleared when the game exits or the service stops.

Map pictures come from ghostcap-gaming/cs2-map-images; maps without one show the CS2 icon. The team badges are in assets/.

#License

MIT