Gnome HUD

Unity like HUD menu for the GNOME Desktop Environment.

Screenshots

HUD menu running with the default menu handler (GTK3).

HUD menu running with the Rofi menu handler.

Dependencies

gtk3 bamf linkeybinder3 python python-gobject python-dbus

Installation

Install the package with the Python Package Index using pip command.

pip install gnome-hud

Post installation

After the package installation, follow the instructions below:

Install bamf daemon (It is strongly recommend to add bamf daemon to autostart)
Install GTK module using instructions below
To get QT menus to work, install your distribution's qt4 and qt5 appmenu packages

UBUNTU

Install unity-gtk-module with sudo apt-get install unity-gtk2-module unity-gtk3-module
Follow instructions in appmenu-gtk-module, but replace any occurence of appmenu-gtk-module to unity-gtk-module

ARCH LINUX

Install appmenu-gtk-module for GTK appmenu support
Install appmenu-qt4 for Qt4 appmenu support
Install libdbusmenu-gtk2 and libdbusmenu-gtk3 for GTK2 and GTK3 dbusmenu support
Install libdbusmenu-qt4 and libdbusmenu-qt5 for Qt4 and Qt5 dbusmenu support

The post installation instructions above are adapted from Vala Panel Application Menu.

Packages

Arch Linux: AUR package

Usage

After the installation is completed, you will have 3 executables and a gnomehud.desktop file available.

Open the GTK3 menu dialog with gnomehud
Open the Rofi menu dialog with gnomehud-rofi
Start the AppMenu service with gnomehud-service

The desktop file launches gnomehud-service and can be used to add it to the startup applications in gnome-tweaks. The dialog commands can be used for custom keyboard shortcuts in keyboard settings.

When running the dialog commands from a terminal the keybinding is Ctrl + Alt + Space.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/hardpixel/gnome-hud.

License

Gnome HUD is available as open source under the terms of the GPLv3