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-moduletounity-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