Intel GPU support has been added to the Linux system monitor app Mission Center.
I’ve written about this GTK4/libadwaita app a few times in the past and, to plagiarize myself, the reaction to it has been off the charts (in a good way).
The app is written in Rust and uses OpenGL to render the animation graphs (in an effort to ensure it doesn’t cause a spike in system usage itself).
Mission Center – a visual dashboard for resource monitoring
Even though some argue that the resource usage of Mission Center is higher than expected for a graphical task manager-type app, it’s important to remember that this is not an application that continually runs, hence, the demands are temporary.
Many have noticed that this application shares some similarities with the modern Task Manager in Windows. However, I am not concerned about the inspiration behind this app but rather the fact that it can run on Linux, which the Windows Task Manager cannot do. That is solely what matters to me.
The following functions are possible with Mission Center:
- Overall CPU usage or per core monitoring
- RAM and Swap usage monitoring
- Detailed system process information
- Breakdown of how the system uses memory
- Storage usage and disk transfer rates monitoring
- Network usage and transfer speeds monitoring
- Network interface information including wireless speeds and IP address
- Resource usage by application and process breakdown
- Minified summary view for instant monitoring
- GPU usage, memory, and power consumption monitoring
GPU monitoring for NVIDIA cards has been supported for a few releases, thanks to NVTOP. Interestingly, the newest version now also provides monitoring for Intel GPUs. This offers Linux users a GUI alternative to the intel_gpu_top package.
Intel GPU monitoring is now available.
In the newest release, a GPU memory usage column has been added to the Apps tab, making it convenient to view the GPU resources running apps are using.
There are also other changes:
- Updated to GTK 4.12 & libadwaita 1.4
- Performance tab is now adaptive
- Initial Intel GPU monitoring
- GPU memory usage column added to Apps page
- Host virtualisation features shows in Performance tab
- Logical CPU graphs re-arranged in a ‘more pleasing manner’
Finally, if you don’t want to install this app as a Flatpak — sacrilege! 😉— you’ll be happy to know that you can now download a Mission Center AppImage from the project Gitlab.
The inclusion of an alternative packaging format is inevitably going to enhance the popularity of this (already favorable) tool.
• Get Mission Center on Flathub
Props 🙌🏻 QwertyChouskie