hud activates too quickly on 14.04

[Daniel Colascione]

After upgrading from 13.10 to 14.04, the HUD appears at unwanted times and captures keystrokes. In gnome-terminal, type alt-s. ESC s will be sent correctly to the terminal, but the HUD will then appear and capture subsequent keystrokes. The HUD feels a bit more sensitive now; I've had to move it to a different key combination to avoid this issue.

[Pete Woods (pete-woods)]

The HUD backend has no control over this. Reassigning to unity.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[James Ferguson (jamesf)]

Adding a me-too. I came from 12.04 using Unity-2d, and use Emacs so use the alt key a lot, and use emacs-style Alt shortcuts in the terminal too. I'm endlessly having to deal with an unwanted HUD.

Firstly, since the HUD doesn't work for Emacs, it shouldn't appear at all for apps for which it's disabled.

But secondly the heuristics are all wrong. I love the HUD, but I'm going to have to change the shortcut key because it's making my system infuriating.