{"id":141,"date":"2023-12-12T00:09:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T00:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/introducing-mission-center-new-features-include-intel-gpu-usage-display-and-appimage-availability\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T05:22:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T05:22:36","slug":"introducing-mission-center-new-features-include-intel-gpu-usage-display-and-appimage-availability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/introducing-mission-center-new-features-include-intel-gpu-usage-display-and-appimage-availability\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Mission Center: New Features Include Intel GPU Usage Display and AppImage Availability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>Intel GPU support has been added to the Linux system monitor app Mission Center.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I\u2019ve written about this GTK4\/libadwaita app <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omglinux.com\/tag\/mission-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a few times in the past<\/a> and, to plagiarize myself, the reaction to it has been off the charts (in a good way). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The app is written in Rust and uses OpenGL to render the animation graphs (in an effort to ensure it doesn\u2019t cause a spike in system usage itself).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/149366088.v2.pressablecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/mission-center-system-monitor-for-linux.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mission Center \u2013 a visual dashboard for resource monitoring<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Even though some argue that the resource usage of <em>Mission Center<\/em> is higher than expected for a graphical task manager-type app, it&#8217;s important to remember that this is not an application that continually runs, hence, the demands are temporary.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Many have noticed that this application shares some similarities with the modern <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Task_Manager_(Windows)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Task Manager<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The following functions are possible with <em>Mission Center<\/em>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Overall CPU usage or per core monitoring<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>RAM and Swap usage monitoring<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Detailed system process information<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Breakdown of how the system uses memory<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Storage usage and disk transfer rates monitoring<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Network usage and transfer speeds monitoring<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Network interface information including wireless speeds and IP address<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Resource usage by application and process breakdown<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Minified summary view for instant monitoring<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>GPU usage, memory, and power consumption monitoring<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><p>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 <code>intel_gpu_top<\/code> package.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/149366088.v2.pressablecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/mission-center-gpu-intel-linux.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Intel GPU monitoring is now available.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In the newest release, a GPU memory usage column has been added to the <em>Apps<\/em> tab, making it convenient to view the GPU resources running apps are using.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>There are also other changes:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Updated to GTK 4.12 &amp; libadwaita 1.4<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Performance tab is now adaptive<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Initial Intel GPU monitoring<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>GPU memory usage column added to Apps page<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Host virtualisation features shows in Performance tab<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Logical CPU graphs re-arranged in a \u2018more pleasing manner\u2019<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><p>Finally, if you don\u2019t want to install this app as a Flatpak \u2014 sacrilege! \ud83d\ude09\u2014 you\u2019ll be happy to know that you can now <strong>download a Mission Center AppImage<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/gitlab.com\/mission-center-devs\/mission-center\/-\/releases\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from the project Gitlab<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The inclusion of an alternative packaging format is inevitably going to enhance the popularity of this (already favorable) tool.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u2022 <strong>Get <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/en-GB\/apps\/io.missioncenter.MissionCenter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mission Center on Flathub<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em>Props \ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\udffb QwertyChouskie <\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel GPU support has been added to the Linux system monitor app Mission Center. 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