hud-service in system monitor is currently using 800 MB of memory. Is this normal? What is it for? Is there a way I can reduce it?
The Ubuntu Heads-Up Display (HUD) - you love it or you hate it. Personally I rather like a classic desktop, so I use Xfce or GNOME-fork Cinnamon, and I'd like to keep those menu's where they are.
But the HUD is pretty awesome when your menus are complex and you forgot where an option sits. This makes that search trick very interesting.
I know the HUD is Unity specific. I am looking for a HUD-like tool to complement the menu in shells other than Unity.
There is Appmenu Runner for KDE that does this. There is also appmenu-qt for KDE.
Problem with the above is that it uses KDE libs, and it only works for KDE apps.
This is Linux, there aught to be something like this for GNOME/GTK apps, right?
Looking for any tool that can search the menus. I already use(d) Synapse, Kupfer and GNOME Do, but those are simply app-launchers (with some tricks). Something like that would suffice if only they included searching the menus for the currently focused application.
The HUD allows users to activate menu items by typing part of the name. It uses a fuzzy search algorithm that will highlight partial matches. It can match menu items that are multiple layers deep in an application's menu hierarchy. The feature, which replaces traditional menu accelerators, is activated by pressing the alt key.
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How do I modify or disable the HUD's use of the Alt key?
In 12.04, the [Alt] key pops up the HUD. That's not a problem, but, when using [Alt]+... it pops up as well.
For instance on pushing [Alt]+[Left Arrow] which I use continually when navigating with Firefox (that's the 'back' functionality).
Is there a way to prevent this from happening?
So how do you use HUD? When I tap the headings for the menus shows up. All I had to do in the past is mouse over the top of the screen and that happens.
Can you tell and show me things that HUD can do that makes is so great. Seems to me it is less useful than Windows. Is this correct?
A number of games, Emacs, and the terminal make extensive use of the Alt key. Can Unity be configured to respect this key, rather than launching the HUD with it?