Last week I finally took the leap and did an online upgrade from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 (Precise Pangolin). To my relief it was a flawless operation and one of the things I wanted to experiment with the much hyped HUD feature which is being slated as a replacement/supplement to application menus. It’s a Marmite feature. You either love it or loathe it but what caught my attention was the keybinding used to launch it and how this interacts with its “near neighbours”.

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