imgoverlay
Vulkan/OpenGL overlay renderer (by nowrep)
hudkit
transparent fullscreen click-through WebKit browser window, for making cool desktop HUDs (by valarnin)
| imgoverlay | hudkit | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 | |
| 15 | 11 | |
| - | - | |
| 4.2 | 0.0 | |
| 9 months ago | 12 months ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| MIT License | ISC License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
imgoverlay
Posts with mentions or reviews of imgoverlay.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-16.
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FF XIV on Linux, a quick no wizardry guide
ACT Overlays will always perform badly because of how wine handles transparency. It's recommend to use something else for overlays like hudkit or imgoverlay or just plain out normal browser window and use the overlay plugin to generate a URL in Plugins -> OverlayPlugin WSServer -> URL generator at the bottom that you can hook into the said programs. Dalamud overlays work fine because they draw into the game window itself instead of using window transparency but if you aren't using DXVK async they do cause a little bit of lag too. FFLogs has a native Linux client so it just works with no glaring issues.
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Discord overlay
You can try https://github.com/nowrep/imgoverlay/ . It renders the overlay inside the game process, so it won't interfere with compositor. I've added example config with Discord overlay.
hudkit
Posts with mentions or reviews of hudkit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-16.
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FF XIV on Linux, a quick no wizardry guide
ACT Overlays will always perform badly because of how wine handles transparency. It's recommend to use something else for overlays like hudkit or imgoverlay or just plain out normal browser window and use the overlay plugin to generate a URL in Plugins -> OverlayPlugin WSServer -> URL generator at the bottom that you can hook into the said programs. Dalamud overlays work fine because they draw into the game window itself instead of using window transparency but if you aren't using DXVK async they do cause a little bit of lag too. FFLogs has a native Linux client so it just works with no glaring issues.
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State of FFXIV on Linux (Manjaro KDE Plasma) w/ AMD GPU - XIVLauncher, ACT, GShade, FPS limiter, OBS w/ GPU encoder and more
As the guide mentions, using hudkit (a native linux CEF wrapper) will allow you to display overlays. If you instead want to use an inlay, use NextUI. browsingway does not work on linux.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing imgoverlay and hudkit you can also consider the following projects:
Discover - Yet another discord overlay for linux
ffxiv-tools - Tools for FFXIV
bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
gshade_installer - GShade Installer / Updater Bash Script for Linux
filament - Filament is a real-time physically based rendering engine for Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, and WebGL2
proton-ge-custom - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components
3d-game-shaders-for-beginners - 🎮 A step-by-step guide to implementing SSAO, depth of field, lighting, normal mapping, and more for your 3D game.
yay - Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go