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The Unity HUD (Head-Up Display) is a Unity feature in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and later. It is intended to replace traditional application menus with a searchable interface.

The Unity HUD (Head-Up Display) is a Unity feature in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and later. It is supposed to replace traditional application menus with a searchable interface.

More information on the Unity HUD and the rationale behind it can be found on Mark Shuttleworth's blog here.

Mockup of the HUD from the aforementioned blog post]

(A mockup of the HUD being used with Inkscape, from the aforementioned blog post)

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How do I modify or disable the HUD's use of the Alt key?

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?
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Is there a shell-independent HUD-like menu search tool for Xfce/GNOME/Cinnamon?

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…
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How can I disable [alt] for search?

Possible Duplicate: 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…
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How do I prevent Ubuntu from capturing the Alt key to show the HUD?

Possible Duplicate: How do I modify or disable the HUD's use of the Alt key? When I press ALT key on virtualbox machine (ex XP), ubuntu 12.04 catch that key. How to prevent ubuntu catch ALT key? Thank you~
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What is the Unity HUD and how can I install it on my system?

I have read about the Unity HUD. Is that a mock up or a real thing? Can I install it on my current Ubuntu 11.10 installation or do I need to upgrade to 12.04?
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How do I use the HUD?

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…
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What is the HUD-service responsible for?

I just disabled the hud-service because it was taking up 2.8 GiB of my computers RAM. I understand that it is part of the unity ecosystem because others are posting solutions along the lines of installing xubuntu etc. However, I like running…
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How can I disable hud-service?

hud-service keeps eating my cpu. This is troublematic, specially because I'm running 12.04 in a Asus EEEPC. There are a lot of answers on how to change hud bindings, but what I reallyw wonder if there is a way to disable or uninstall…
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HUD in other window managers (especially xmonad)

It seems that HUD (Heads Up Display) is tightly tied to Unity. However I just use xmonad as a window manager, especially I don't use unity. Is there a way to use HUD within xmonad (or more generally withing other window managers and desktop…
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hud-service is using 800 MB, is this necessary?

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?
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alt key for HUD conflict

I have just installed Ubuntu 14.04, and encountered a weird problem When I am using google-chrome, I use Alt+D to go to the address bar and type a url. However, every times I press Alt, Ubuntu HUD will pop up and block my chrome. So I need to press…
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Xmonad with Unity / HUD

I want to use xmonad and still use the HUD from Unity. Is this possible? Could Xmonad be using while using Unity? is there a way to use the HUD inside of Xmonad? I'm in 12.04, soon to be 12.10.
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Can I disable Dash and HUD hotkeys when fullscreen (in DOSBox)?

I'd like to know if its possible to disable the global hotkeys (Start and Alt) for Unity features while running applications in fullscreen under DOSBox. If possible, it would be nice to disable them for all applications running fullscreen, but…
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LibreOffice 4.0's menu bar is not integrated with Unity

One of the most interesting features of the new LibreOffice 4 is the direct compatibility with Unity's Panel and HUD. So I've just installed this wonderful new release. Everything works fine... except for that, so as an active user of every…
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Return HUD key from Mod 2 + Alt L back to Alt L

I was fooling around in the keyboard shortcut section, and accidentally changed the HUD's shortcut from Alt L to Mod 2 + Alt L. Now, whenever I hold and even press the alt key, HUD will pop up. I don't have the option to hold the alt key, and then…
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