Goverlay is an open-source project that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to manage Vulkan and OpenGL overlays.
It’s still under active development, so some features may be missing or incomplete.

This project exists thanks to the amazing work of the original maintainers and contributors behind the core tools.
I’m just a network engineer who loves Linux and gaming — this is my way of giving something back to the community.

• Screenshots
• Prerequisites
• Installation
  • Distributions
    • Arch / Manjaro / Other Arch-based distributions
    • Fedora
    • Solus
    • Ubuntu
    • OpenSUSE
  • Tarball
  • Building from Source
    • Prerequisites
    • Building
    • Running
• Credits
• Donations

Dependencies required to run Goverlay:

• mangohud — Configure MangoHud
• mesa-demos — OpenGL demo tools
• vulkan-tools — Vulkan demo tools
• vkBasalt — Configure vkBasalt
• git — Used to clone repositories (e.g., ReShade)
• qt6pas — Qt6 bindings for Free Pascal / Lazarus
• zenergy — Displays AMD CPU power metrics
• pascube — A simple OpenGL spinning cube used for configuration previews

Download the AppImage from the Releases page and make it executable:

chmod +x Goverlay_1_3.AppImage
./Goverlay_1_3.AppImage

Option 1 – Official Repository

sudo pacman -S goverlay

Option 2 – Arch User Repository (AUR)

yay -S goverlay

sudo dnf install goverlay

sudo zypper install goverlay

Add the games:tools repository and install:

sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games:tools/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/games:tools.repo
sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install goverlay

sudo eopkg it goverlay

sudo apt install goverlay

The libqt6pas package is not available in official repositories.
You can get it from David Bannon’s repository:

sudo apt-get update
wget https://github.com/davidbannon/libqt6pas/releases/download/v6.2.8/libqt6pas6_6.2.8-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libqt6pas6_6.2.8-1_amd64.deb
tar -zxvf Goverlay*.tar.gz
./Goverlay

1. Download the latest tarball from the Releases page.
2. Extract it:

   tar -xvf Goverlay*.tar.xz

3. Run the binary:

   ./Goverlay

Note: Since version 0.6.4, MangoHud must be installed to run Goverlay.

• Lazarus IDE

git clone https://github.com/benjamimgois/Goverlay.git
cd Goverlay
make

./Goverlay

sudo make install

This installs the startup script to /usr/local/bin/Goverlay, allowing you to launch it directly via:

Goverlay

Huge thanks to FlightlessMango, creator and maintainer of MangoHud — the foundation that made Goverlay possible.

• https://flightlessmango.com
• https://github.com/flightlessmango/MangoHud
• https://discord.com/invite/Gj5YmBb"

Special thanks to DadSchoorse, creator of vkBasalt, which adds post-processing effects to Vulkan.

• https://github.com/DadSchoorse/vkBasalt

This project was built using the Lazarus IDE.

If this project has been useful to you, consider supporting its development ❤️