Is there a way to search a menu bar in Debian?

Question

I want to search my menu bar, to easily find obscure menu items.

I know that the HUD (Heads Up Display) in Unity has this feature, however I am running Gnome 3 on Debian 7.

Is there a way to do this on my system?

Answer 1

This Web page discusses several possibilties, after reading it I moved to Recoll. And, while you are at it, but unrelated to the OP, you may also wish to consider Awesome-wm as Window Manager.