I have had consistent issues with Discord for years with regards to Multi-Monitor Taskbars. When I have Discord pinned on a non-primary monitor, it works fine until Discord updates whereupon the pin no longer recognizes the running Discord process and I have to un-pin and re-pin the newly updated version

https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/discord-in-multi-monitor-shortcuts/?ID=932fc300-8b39-4361-889b-29677c425419

This thread ^^ looks like it's saying that the issue should be fixed, but it appears to be still broken for me. I am on 10.1.2 (Steam Version), and as far as I can tell, there are no further beta version (and 10.1.2 is from after that thread).

Is it possible that the fix for this wasn't rolled into the release version of the app?

Attached. It took a few days for there to be a Discord update.

That didn't fix the issue, but it did change the icon for the saved pin...

I uploaded a new copy of those troubleshooter files, as well as an image showing that the saved icon for Discord (the old pinned copy) changed to a weird old discord icon. I don't know if that means anything, but I figured it was worth including

Through the downloaded installer. I don't use the Windows Store in general.

And is it okay if I go ahead and manually fix my pinned item now? The visual annoyance is one thing, but I can't open Discord from that pin because it tries to locate the older version of the Discord exe and fails. I have been having to manually open it since the update.

I will likely be able to replicate the issue again in a few days whenever there is an attempted fix, as Discord updates fairly regularly.

Just popping by to see if there's a fix for this. The issue is still happening on my side (happened this afternoon with a Discord update)

Yes. I don't reboot my computer all that often, so Discord tends to be running for like, 2 weeks or more at a time, but when I do restart, I open Discord by clicking the pin on the DF taskbar.

Hi!
I've been poking around for a solution to this issue as well, and believe it has something to do WITH changing the icon on the pinned item - after discord updates, it returns as a new icon on the taskbar showing the default icon, not the custom one changed in the pinned taskbar settings.

I read through this discussion and decided to test a few updates WITHOUT changing the icon and it stays! When I leave the icon as default, updates no longer break the pinned item.

I'm just not sure why the custom icon breaks Discord when I've had a custom icon for Chrome for years without issues...

Tested both with Discord Canary and Stable.

Made an insteresting discovery today, just not sure if it's good news or bad news..
I had spent a bit under a week leaving Discord Canary with the default icon, I pushed two updates to it in that time.
I made my post here and last night changed the icon for Discord Canary back to the old square ''classic'' Discord icon.
Since then, all my updates have actually "remembered" the icon and worked as intended.

I double checked by closing the program out entirely with an update in queue and when it reopened just now it still has the same spot and same custom icon in Display Fusion taskbar.

Could be great news if leaving pinned items unchanged for a few updates fixes the issue for anyone else, but also might mean that testing this problem might not replicate results??

It broke again yesterday.
Testing another update now with default icon, working as intended.

I am testing with Canary, I'm going to start taking notes of the pinned item in DisplayFusion, as Canary updates more frequently, I can watch the build number to see if the directory is changing at the same time as the custom icon disappearing etc.

Currently, Discord is pinned at .\app-1.0.175\DiscordCanary.exe
Current build for Discord is Canary 264532 (ff07e79) Host 1.0.175 x86 (43675)
I ran the previous update with default icon again, I'll be changing back to a custom icon and return with another post as I find anything out.

So I've been updating more frequently to try and find the cause of the break:
It appears as though my luck last week with the updates not breaking the icon was coincidental:
Minor updates to the binary do not break the icon, but updates to the client host build do-

client host updates are the updates that change the build number of the directory the exe binary is stored in.

I have also noted that changing the 'application directory' of the pinned item in DisplayFusion so that it matches the current build directory fixes the issue and returns the program back to it's original pinned place with the custom icon.



I almost doubt this information is useful, but at least means "leaving pinned items as default" is confirmed not a workaround or fix.

At first I was right clicking the default icon every time it reappeared to pin it.
This last week I've just been editing the old pin and changing the host build number to be +1.

Both the above act the same way,
although I've not built a taskbar pin from scratch.

Since Discord does have a property for the Metro (Universal) App ID, I attempted to edit a pin to only contain that data and omit the application directory, but it refused to save.
I have updated my pin with the checkbox "is this a Metro app" to enabled after today to see if this affects the next handful of updates.

It took a while!

Updated Discord Canary this morning to 0.184 and the icon broke, test was with the mentioned "metro app" option selected.
Updating the directory for the pin fixes the issue, uncertain how or if that directory could be automatically updated without needing to edit the pin.
Discord does have multiple executables that can call the main application, some of which don't change directories, but I believe they all call the 0.184\Discord.exe into action and then close.

Besides pinning other random discord related executables, at this point I'm out of ideas to test.

My setup is:
Main taskbar is Windows while secondary taskbar is DisplayFusion.
Secondary taskbar has had Chrome pinned with a custom icon for years without issues, the pinned icon for chrome does not contain a version or build number in the directory, it is ProgramFiles\Chrome\Chrome.exe

Hi!
This reply is very long overdue and I think is mostly recapturing what was discovered above-
A few months ago, I discovered (by accident) that there is a very simple way to update the taskbar icon.
I've attached a gif showcasing my discovery.

This issue is caused by the main taskbar still being managed by Windows, and still being the primary focus of opening programs, such as in this case-
Updating discord from within the client ALSO seems to cause the duplicate icon to appear, however both are solved by simply clicking the Display Fusion icon already present (inactive), which seemingly updates / corrects the shortcut to the updated version of the client.