A graphic overlay appears over Pamac

Support Software & Applications
1

Dear all,

since several days, in the pamac app a graphic overlay appears, that is normally only active in games.

How to remove it? Thanks!

Bildschirmfoto_20250705_203555
Bildschirmfoto_20250705_2035553831×2067 284 KB

2

Seems to be MangoHud. You have configured something for it to be in all rendered windows.

1 Like
3

Yes, it is, thanks for reminding the app’s name.

I had configured it 1.5 years ago and never changed anything after this. Why it is now only appearing in a non-game app like Pamac? Other non-game apps doesn’t show this behaviour.

Any ideas? Should I post any config or log?

Thanks!

4

On more mabye useful information, because this topic was splitted:

I am using Manjaro unstable. And the problem occurred 10-5 days ago after an update.

5

Well, this is a known situation for applications on gtk 4 , as they use vulkan.
Probably you are using pamac gui on gtk 4, in that case you better disable the use of mangohud at system level and enable it only for games. Or you can switch to the classic version pamac-gtk3
or try add blacklist=pamac-manager in mangohud config

2 Likes
6

this works! thanks a lot! :slight_smile:

MangoHud config is located at
/home/USERNAME/.config/MangoHud/MangoHud.conf

7

One more update, I think this is a MangoHud issue, but maybe someone other here is also concerned, my GnomeCalc has the same problem starting from today or yesterday:

blacklist=gnome-calculator

helps.

8

Formally this is not a issue, mangohud draws the graph for applications using vulkan as expected. In this message states that the author added a check to make sure it didn’t work for gtk 4 applications. Maybe something changed in the latest gtk update and this check doesn’t work anymore, you should discuss it with the developer.

1 Like
9

Anyway the proper way to use MangoHud is to enable it per application, not enabling it system wide. Should properly configure it.

3 Likes
10

Thanks for the views of opinions. :+1:

But what would be the reasonable, long-term solution for the simple user?

12

This is the reasonable and long-term solution:

:warning: You might need to read the documentation.

2 Likes
13

This topic was automatically closed 3 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.