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mate-hud
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ubuntu-mate / mate-hud

mate-hud

Provides a way to run menubar commands through rofi, much like the Unity 7 Heads-Up Display (HUD).

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
57GitHub stars
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What it is

Provides a way to run menubar commands through rofi, much like the Unity 7 Heads-Up Display (HUD).

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-01-15 14:10:07 UTC to 2023-11-11 18:44:33 UTC.

012020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Krunner is great (and similar to what you can do with the Gnome shell search or OS X spotlight), but it won't search the menu of your current application. There are plenty of hints how to restore a Unity-like global menu feeling with Gnome, for instance https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/05/how-to-add-global-menu... -- you can also get a global menu in KDE Plasma, it's called "Application Menu Bar" and seems to be included by default. I neither tested both of them. Here is a GIF of a similar function: https://149366088.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/201... -- the name of this tool seems to be Mate HUD, cf. https://github.com/ubuntu-mate/mate-hud
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