Performance Monitoring

MANGOHUD

Introduction

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MangoHUD is a highly customizable overlay for openGL and vulkan applications to monitor vital hardware information such as temperature, power draw and frequencies to name a few. This can be useful to keep an eye on hardware performance during gameplay as well as diagnostics tool to determine bottleneck.

Installation

Command Line Installation

MangoHUD is already in fedora repository and you can install mangoHUD with the following command using your favourite terminal. Detailed steps are as follows:

  1. Run the following command using your terminal of choice.

    sudo dnf install mangohud

  2. Key in your password (characters will not show when you type and that is normal) and press enter.

  3. A prompt will ask for your confirmation on the install package list information as well as the total install size. You should see both mangohud i686 and mangohud x86_64 listed.

  4. key in Y and press Enter and wait for the installation to finish.

  5. You’re done! MangoHUD is installed and ready for configuration.

Graphical Install

MangoHUD is searchable in your fedora graphical package manager such as Gnome Software and KDE Discover.

You will see two seperate version of mangoHUD when searching for it in the Graphical Package Manager, "Fedora (Linux)" as well as "Flatpak". To summarize the difference between both version, Fedora (Linux) version will install mangoHUD system wide (but not Flatpak application) while Flatpak version will only be able to be use on Flatpak applications.

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