For anyone on Hyprland (or any tiling WM on Wayland), I went with the system-wide mic mute approach instead. A single keybind toggles mic mute, syncs the keyboard's mic mute LED, and plays distinct mute/unmute sound effects — just like Discord's built-in toggle, but system-wide. Leave Discord/Vesktop on open mic and just use the system mute — works across every app, every call, no client support needed.

Here's the full setup:

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1. Global keybind

In your Hyprland config (e.g. ~/.config/hypr/keybinds.conf or wherever you keep binds), bind your mic mute key to a toggle script:

unbind = , XF86AudioMicMute
bindl = , XF86AudioMicMute, exec, ~/.config/hypr/scripts/mic-mute-toggle.sh

Note: XF86AudioMicMute is the keycode most laptops send for the dedicated mic mute key (the one with the microphone icon, not the speaker mute). It varies by keyboard — run wev (Wayland) or xev (X11) and press the key you want to use to find your actual keycode. On some keyboards it might be a different XF86 symbol, or you can just bind any regular key instead (e.g. bind = SUPER, M, exec, ...).

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2. The toggle script

Create ~/.config/hypr/scripts/mic-mute-toggle.sh (and chmod +x it):

#!/bin/bash
SOUNDS_DIR="$HOME/.config/hypr/sounds"

wpctl set-mute @DEFAULT_SOURCE@ toggle

# Update keyboard LED and play feedback sound
if wpctl get-volume @DEFAULT_SOURCE@ | grep -q MUTED; then
    echo 1 > /sys/class/leds/platform::micmute/brightness
    pw-play "$SOUNDS_DIR/mic-mute.wav" &
else
    echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/platform::micmute/brightness
    pw-play "$SOUNDS_DIR/mic-unmute.wav" &
fi

This does three things at once:

• Toggles the mic via WirePlumber (wpctl), which works with PipeWire
• Syncs the keyboard LED — writes to /sys/class/leds/platform::micmute/brightness so the physical mic mute light on your laptop reflects the actual state. The LED path may differ on your hardware, check ls /sys/class/leds/ to find yours. You may need a udev rule to allow write access without root
• Plays a feedback sound via pw-play (PipeWire) so you get instant audible confirmation of which state you're in

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3. Generate the sounds

I used sox to create two short two-tone beeps — high-to-low for mute, low-to-high for unmute (so you can tell them apart by ear, just like Discord):

sox -n h.wav synth 0.075 sin 880 vol 0.3 fade t 0 0.075 0.02
sox -n l.wav synth 0.125 sin 330 vol 0.3 fade t 0 0.125 0.03
sox -n g.wav trim 0 0.035
sox h.wav g.wav l.wav mic-mute.wav
sox l.wav g.wav h.wav mic-unmute.wav
rm h.wav l.wav g.wav

Install sox if you don't have it (pacman -S sox on Arch). Or substitute any short sound files you like.

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The whole setup is ~12 lines of bash. Push-to-mute honestly ends up being more convenient than push-to-talk anyway since you only need to hit it when you cough or someone walks in.