Sublime Text editor opens with no menu bar unless started with sudo

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I have installed Ubuntu 13.10 on VirtualBox 4.3.6, running on Windows 7. I have installed the VirtualBox Guest Additions on Ubuntu.

I have used this .deb file to install Sublime Text, which seems to work fine except that it has no menu bar unless started with sudo privileges.

Using AltV to try to enable the menu shows only a Hide Menu option, so it clearly thinks it is currently being displayed.

I am seeing this behaviour for both Sublime Text 2 and Sublime Text 3.

Does anyone have any idea what the problem may be?

I have found this question that relates to similar symptoms, but the problem wasn't resolved.

This works for me http://stackoverflow.com/a/37353024/1358777 — Alwin Kesler, May 23 '16 at 12:46

score 8 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 19 '17 at 08:16

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If you are starting from a desktop shortcut you can edit the .desktop file's Exec line to be something like Exec=env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 /usr/bin/sublime-text

See here for an example of how a similar problem was solved for eclipse.

edited Jul 19 '17 at 08:16

Muhammad Hassaan

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answered Feb 12 '14 at 01:49

nerdward

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this works, but if you have an entry in ~/.local/share/applications, you need to edit that one – Bogdan Tomi Sep 11 '18 at 15:25

score 7 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 02 '16 at 14:39

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Here is a simple solution that worked for me

Close the Sublime Text 3, if it is open. Open and edit the file ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Local/Session.sublime_session to make sure that, "menu_visible" is "true" in all places in that file.

"menu_visible": true,

Source: http://www.thefourtheye.in/2014/01/un-hiding-menu-bar-in-sublime-text-3.html

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thefourtheye

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answered Dec 01 '14 at 16:40

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lol. I had the same problem in my new installation of Ubuntu and I didn't remember I blogged about it :D – thefourtheye Jan 02 '16 at 14:38

score 5 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 19 '16 at 18:15

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I solved in Ubuntu16.04! Sublime installation path is /opt/

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/sublime_text.desktop

Add env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 in Exec= before /opt/* as shown in fig.

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answered Jul 15 '16 at 05:09

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6ft Dan · Answer 4 · 2014-05-23T20:27:49.953

For Ubuntu create this file sublime in /usr/bin/

#!/bin/bash
env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 /opt/sublime/sublime_text $@ 2>/dev/null &

Then chmod +x sublime. Put it in your executable path and you're good to go! If you have sublime in a different location you'll have to set that at this part '/opt/sublime/sublime_text'

You'll want to have errors routed to null since Glib throws up warnings (it's a known Ubuntu issue).

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 12 '14 at 03:14

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Wipe out any saved Sublime editor settings, probably in ~/.sublime or similar.

answered Feb 12 '14 at 03:14

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score -1 · Answer 6 · edited Jul 19 '17 at 08:19

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press Ctrl + Shift + p then type vmenu Select Toggle menu and enter. then check it.

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answered Feb 11 '17 at 14:15

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