{"id":51682,"date":"2026-07-27T08:36:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=51682"},"modified":"2026-07-27T08:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:36:42","slug":"mission-center-1-2-0-released-with-battery-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2026\/07\/mission-center-1-2-0-released-with-battery-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Center 1.2.0 Released with Battery Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-46939\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/mission-center-icon-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/mission-center-icon-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/mission-center-icon-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/mission-center-icon-700x700.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/mission-center-icon-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/mission-center-icon.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mission Center, the modern popular Linux system monitor application, released new 1.2.0 version one day ago.<\/p>\n<p>The new version of this free open-source Rust written and GTK4\/LibAdwaita based application finally <b>added monitoring support for laptop battery<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It now displays a battery page in the Performance tab, drawing the graphs for battery input and output in real-time, as well as the battery charge info over the past week.<\/p>\n<p>And, it displays current battery percentage, health, energy in Wh, charge circle, and other information such as capacity, voltage, and charge threshold.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/mission-center-battery.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-51683\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/mission-center-battery-700x401.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/mission-center-battery-700x401.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/mission-center-battery-300x172.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/mission-center-battery-768x440.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/mission-center-battery.webp 1299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The disk storage monitoring page has been updated with <b>per-partition usage details<\/b> information, allowing to take quick a glance at how much disk space is used for all the volumes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-51684\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ms-partitions-700x488.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ms-partitions-700x488.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ms-partitions-300x209.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ms-partitions-768x536.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ms-partitions.webp 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And, the CPU page now includes a <b>new temperature graph<\/b> in bottom, which can be changed to power draw graph or CPU frequency graph via right-click menu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-51685\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ms-tempgraph-700x425.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ms-tempgraph-700x425.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ms-tempgraph-300x182.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ms-tempgraph-768x466.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ms-tempgraph.webp 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the first run, the app will show a dialog asking for additional setup for CPU power draw, per-process network usage, and lm-sensors setup. User can re-launch the dialog at any time from the hamburger menu and revert the setup.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51686\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ms-firstrun.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ms-firstrun.webp 650w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ms-firstrun-300x208.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Other UI changes in the release include ability to change what to draw in the middle graph in GPU page, display <b>zram<\/b> or <b>zswap<\/b> memory compression statistics in the Memory page, <b>per-process swap usage<\/b> instead of shared memory in Apps tab, and option (in Preferences) to gray out zero values in the Apps page.<\/p>\n<p>Mission Center 1.2.0 also improved the graph drawing backend for smoother rendering and animations, and less stuttering on application startup. <\/p>\n<p>It as well updated <b>Snap package<\/b> to use core24, and updated <b>AppImage to use quick-sharun<\/b> instead of FUSE file system.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Update to GNOME 50 Platform.<\/li>\n<li>Hold Ctrl to pause UI refreshes.<\/li>\n<li>Allow sending process signals (requires pkexec).<\/li>\n<li>Add <code>--app-id<\/code>\/<code>-a<\/code> CLI option to start app with custom App ID.<\/li>\n<li>Show total GPU memory on the graph when GTT not available.<\/li>\n<li>Add visual indicator when CPU speed falls back to BogoMIPS.<\/li>\n<li>New keyboard shortcuts.<\/li>\n<li>More about information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are as well various bug-fixes and other changes. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/gitlab.com\/mission-center-devs\/mission-center\/-\/wikis\/Release-Notes\/v1.2.0\" target=\"_blank\">wiki page<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<h3>How to Install Mission Center<\/h3>\n<p>Mission Center is available to install through <b>AppImage<\/b>, <b>Flatpak<\/b>, and <b>Snap<\/b> package. All the 3 are universal package formats that work in most Linux Distributions.<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu user may search &#038; install the the <a href=\"https:\/\/snapcraft.io\/mission-center\" target=\"_blank\">Snap package<\/a> from App Center (or Ubuntu Software), Fedora &#038; Linux Mint can choose install the <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/en\/apps\/io.missioncenter.MissionCenter\" target=\"_blank\">Flatpak package<\/a> from either GNOME Software or Software Manager, <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51687\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51687\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ms120-snap-700x482.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"420\" class=\"size-large wp-image-51687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ms120-snap-700x482.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ms120-snap-300x207.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ms120-snap-768x529.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ms120-snap.webp 1015w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-51687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mission Center snap package in Ubuntu App Center<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want to install it in your system, simply select <a href=\"https:\/\/gitlab.com\/mission-center-devs\/mission-center\/-\/releases\" target=\"_blank\">download the AppImage<\/a>, add executable permission (from its Properties) finally run it to launch the system monitor app.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Center, the modern popular Linux system monitor application, released new 1.2.0 version one day ago. 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