MangoHud is basically my go-to when it comes to keeping an eye on Linux gaming performance, one of those must-have utilities and a new release is out now. It allows you to get a HUD on top of your game for tracking things like FPS, frame timing, temperatures, RAM / VRAM usage and much more.
Here's how it looks with the horizontal setting in Death Stranding 2 on Linux:
This release is mostly a tidying up release, bringing a good few bug fixes including:
- egl: added missing
HAVE_WAYLANDcheck.- amdgpu: sometimes cpu power is not available in gpu_metrics so try sysfs.
- amdgpu: would try to access cpuStats during shutdown.
- amdgpu: gpu_metrics was not working on 32bit due to incorrect size checks.
- params: race condition that would cause a crash when using presets.
- gpus: fixed a double free of params crash.
- glx: don't permit setting vsync to -1 as it's not in spec and will crash Zink.
- glx: fix corrupted font textures in some games.
- mangoapp: font was not being recreated.
- mangoapp: fix locking render thread on no_display.
- colors: HDR wasn't being converted after config reload.
- display_server: was being displayed without explicitly setting it.
- vulkan: fix swapchain image handling by indexing per-image state by image index instead of acquisition order.
- no_small_font: was not working at all.
- vulkan: added missing free for commandbuffer in shutdown.
- ImGui/Implot: was not being cleaned up properly.
- GL: reverted dlsym changes that caused crashes with nvidia drivers.
- preset: 4: procmem was not being set.
- Allow HUD sizes smaller than 32px.
- FEX: was not working with gamescope.
And some new features too:
- Added panthor driver support.
- Added support for DDR5 Ram temp through SPD5118 driver.
ram_tempoption.- Added support for more units than KiB for gpu memory in fdinfo.
- Bumped Vulkan-headers to 1.3.283.
- Bumped ImGui to 1.91.6.
- ImGui: font: reduced oversampling from 3 to 1.
- ImGui: font: turned of AA.
gpu_listpermit using+and:as separators.proc_vramdisplayed for all GPUs.- Blacklist: added GardenGate_Launcher.exe.
- Blacklist: added KanvasLauncher.exe.
MANGOHUD_FPS_LIMITadds limit to the front of the limits list.- Added SDL GPU as an engine.
cpu_custom_temp_sensorUse custom hwmon sensor for cpu temperature.
Source: GitHub
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• GL: reverted dlsym changes that caused crashes with nvidia drivers.Yep, this was the big one. Mangohud was causing a number of my Native Linux games to crash on exit (except AppImages, oddly). I had to shift to the v0.8.3 beta to stop this.
Unfortunately, v0.8.3 doesn't seem to work in Mint 21.3 / Ubuntu 22.04 so I'll have to put up with the crashing until I'm ready to try upgrading to Mint 22 again.
Last edited by Caldathras on 24 Apr 2026 at 7:18 pm UTC
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nice! Every since this was suggested in the forum here, I've been using it on most of my games. Using it right now for Pragmata. The steam overlay itself is too buggy (I can't believe it even exists in this form) and this mangohud works all the time no fuss. Love it.
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