plasmus777 / gom-app

A simple GTK4 application for managing gpu offloading on linux

GPU Offloading Manager

GPU Offloading Manager aims to implement an user interface to configure and launch programs automatically under systems with hybrid graphics.

Objective

Linux based systems have always had issues and lack of support regarding computers with multiple video cards. In the recent years however, manufacturers managed to improve quite a bit in the driver department, implementing several lacking features that improved offloading capabilities. One of the few things that still did not improve is application profile selection - launching a program using a more/less capable GPU automatically/manually.

TODO:

• UI Design
• Code Implementation
• Driver support
  • Open-source
    • Nouveau
    • Amdgpu
  • Proprietary
    • Nvidia
    • Amdgpu-Pro
• Packaging
  • Compiling Instructions
  • Tar.gz file
  • Flatpak support
  • Snap support

Extra notes

• This application is NOT a driver/switcher utility (like prime-select or others). What is does is simply allow the user to select the default graphic card for installed applications under systems with hybrid graphics.
• The application expects your system to already have your drivers configured. Follow your distribution's documentation before using Gpu Offloading Manager.

_{Reminder: This project is mostly a hobby, and as such, no updates/features are a given. I'll try my best to update the project and make sure that it works, but no compromises.}

gom-app's Issues

UI - implement a basic "display" panel

-> The display panel must show basic display-related information to the user, such as:

• Display protocol;
• Integrated and Discrete GPU information:
  • Vendor name;
  • GPU model;
  • Driver name/version
  • PCI bus;

UI - implement a basic window

->Title

UI - implement a basic "running applications" panel

-> The running applications panel must allow the user to:

• See what applications are running with the discrete GPU;
  • Display extra information about the applications (such as name, description, icon, PID).
• Launch new applications using the discrete GPU;
• Launch new applications using the integrated GPU (should be default, but depends on the system and the driver);
• Select runtime variables to launch an application with.

UI - implement an "application profiles" panel

-> The panel must allow the user to see and manage "application profiles", each one having:

• Application name;
• Application description;
• Preferred GPU - integrated or discrete;
• (Optional) Environment variables to launch the application with;
• (Optional) Script (s) to be executed upon launch;
• (Optional) Script (s) to be executed upon exit;
• (Optional) Notification that the application will run with discrete/integrated GPU on launch;
• Saving an application profile;
• Editing an application profile;
• Deleting an application profile;
• Importing application profiles;
• Exporting application profiles;

The idea for "application profiles" is automatically launching certain programs using a predetermined GPU, similar to what you would have by default on another OS.

UI - implement a way to navigate between different panels

->Title