How to uninstall HUD on ubuntu 12.04

**woxuxow** · May 22nd, 2012

How can i uninstall HUD on ubuntu 12.04
i don`t want to disable HUD i just want to uninstall it completely

**Isaacgallegos** · May 22nd, 2012

That would mean customization. That's frowned upon in 12.04.

**woxuxow** · May 22nd, 2012

Originally Posted by Isaacgallegos

That would mean customization. That's frowned upon in 12.04.

Isn`t there any easy way to uninstall HUD

**Hylas de Niall** · May 22nd, 2012

I'm not sure why anyone would want to? It stays out of your way until it's invoked.
Is it causing you issues?

**wilee-nilee** · May 22nd, 2012

Originally Posted by MustafaJF

Isn`t there any easy way to uninstall HUD

Not even listed as HUD in synaptic, as the gangster would say "forget about it"

You have to be very careful about just removing packages, dependencies usually are associated.

**Enigmapond** · May 22nd, 2012

The HUD is all part of Unity. If you don't want to use it. Use the Gnome Classic fallback. There is no way to purge the Hud without it affecting other things as well.

**papibe** · May 22nd, 2012

Hi MustafaJF.

As we chat on ubuntuforums, and for reference:

The easiest way is to disable HUD is by blanking its shortcut:

Code:

Open System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Launchers > Key to show HUD

Source: this.

Regards.

**woxuxow** · May 24th, 2012

Originally Posted by papibe

Hi MustafaJF.

As we chat on ubuntuforums, and for reference:

The easiest way is to disable HUD is by blanking its shortcut:

Code:

Open System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Launchers > Key to show HUD

Source: this.

Regards.

Yeah i remember you
thank you
i forgot about it
i changed the hotkey of enabling HUT in that way you mentioned
so there is no easy way to remove HUD

**zombifier25** · May 24th, 2012

Originally Posted by MustafaJF

Yeah i remember you
thank you
i forgot about it
i changed the hotkey of enabling HUT in that way you mentioned
so there is no easy way to remove HUD

HUD is a part of Unity itself. I don't see you should be concerned with removing the HUD anyway. Neither does it slow down Unity when kept, nor does it make it any faster when removed.

NOTE: I can't check (because I'm on Classic and currently downloading a really big file) but there's an executable that might be responsible for HUD: /usr/lib/indicator-appmenu/hud-service