Showing menu bar in Sublime Text

Question

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I got the Sublime Text editor from here.... http://sublimetext.com/3

I've googled this a lot and even after doing Alt+V I don't see an option to 'Show Menu'.

Here is a section of my .config/sublime-text-3/Local/Session.sublime_session:

"menu_visible": true,
"output.find_results":
{
    "height": 0.0
},

and

"distraction_free":
{
    "menu_visible": true,
    "show_minimap": false,
    "show_open_files": false,
    "show_tabs": false,
    "side_bar_visible": false,
    "status_bar_visible": false
},

But I can see the menu bar neither in default state nor in Distraction Free mode

I'm at a loss as to how to see the menu bar. I have an unregistered version by the way.

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I got the Sublime Text editor from here.... http://www.sublimetext.com/3 — user3490188, Apr 03 '14 at 19:52

Chnossos · Answer 1 · 2020-05-28T15:35:02.887

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Invoke the command palette with CTRL + SHIFT + P
Type menu
Select View: Toggle Menu

edited May 28 '20 at 15:35

answered Apr 03 '14 at 17:01

Chnossos

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I do Ctrl+Shift+P and when I type menu nothing appears. – user3490188 Apr 03 '14 at 19:49
Some research shows it is some kind of bug with ubuntu, try looking at [some related topics](http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&p=29721). [Try this too](http://www.thefourtheye.in/2014/01/un-hiding-menu-bar-in-sublime-text-3.html). – Chnossos Apr 03 '14 at 20:01
It's strange. I tried F10, and the menu comes up but it is at the top of the screen and not where Sublime Text is. Setting menu_visible:true did not work in Session.sublime_session. It HAS to be a bug. – user3490188 Apr 03 '14 at 20:19
This works fine with Sublime Text 3 on elementary OS. :) – Munshi Azhar Dec 14 '19 at 03:15

score 10 · Answer 2 · 2016-05-21T03:35:03.737

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If the above solution doesn't work for someone, try:

dconf reset -f /org/compiz/
setsid unity

This should work ! I was having this problem with other apps too... So I just reset the whole thing.

edited May 21 '16 at 03:35

answered May 20 '16 at 17:57

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Didn't need to use the reset command. Just relaunching Unity did it for me. – Tejas Anil Shah Sep 04 '16 at 11:05
Thanks man!! worked like charm. My System: Ubuntu 16.04 64bit, Sublime3 build 3143. – Maitray Suthar Apr 21 '18 at 17:06

score 10 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 19 '17 at 09:58

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Press Ctrl + Shift + p

Search for menu

Click on view: Toggle Menu

It will work

edited Sep 19 '17 at 09:58

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answered Mar 27 '17 at 05:22

Swadesh Ranjan Dash

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That was all I was looking for, after hiding the menu and not knowing how to show it again. Thanks for sharing. – Francis Rodrigues Apr 14 '17 at 00:00
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This answer is the same as top answer, with no additional information or what so ever. – jdhao Jan 02 '18 at 12:52

dualed · Answer 4 · 2019-07-27T21:48:36.557

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Apparently there is an undocumented toggle_menu command, so you can bind a key to it. But Alt alone does not seem to work - I guess because it's a modifier key for SLT.

.../User/Default (Linux).sublime-keymap:

[
    { "keys": ["f10"], "command": "toggle_menu"}
]

edited Jul 27 '19 at 21:48

answered Jul 27 '19 at 21:41

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This was exactly what I was looking for, +1! – Aᴄʜᴇʀᴏɴғᴀɪʟ Sep 23 '19 at 01:43
this was also just what I've been searching for for some time! great. – emilBeBri Jan 06 '21 at 11:11

score 8 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 02 '16 at 09:55

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Simple pressing Alt works for me. I'm using sublime text 3

answered Mar 02 '16 at 09:55

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score 7 · Answer 6 · edited Sep 19 '17 at 11:02

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In Windows, you can press the Alt key and menu will reappear .

In Linux, You need to press Ctrl + Alt + P then menu will appear in center of the screen then you need to choose View -> Hide/Show Menu menu entry.

Then this will be permanently set as default.

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score 7 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 20 '19 at 09:37

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For me it worked this way:

I am using ubuntu 18.05 lts

ctrl+shift+p and then you get a search bar with all options. Type view and select View: Toggle menu

it will appear back automatically.

answered Apr 20 '19 at 09:37

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score 2 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 26 '17 at 19:43

In case there are other Linux/Ubuntu/Gnome Desktop Environment n00bs out there, like me, note that the menus may appear at the top of the screen rather than the top of the window, as per the screen shot below:

Gnome Desktop Environment menu for Sublime Text 3

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Aug 21 '20 at 06:02

For Linux, folow below steps

Close sublime text

Go to /home/-user-directory-/.config/sublime-text-version-/Local/

vim/edit Session.sublime_session

Look for the last line with “menu_visible”:false,

change value to true

Save the file

Reopen sublime text

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Jan 14 '22 at 23:46

I was having the same problem. And the solutions didn`t wok: there wasn't view -> Hide/Show Menu; neither there wasn't View: Toggle menu.

From this post below I found a comment from @MattDMo explaining the following:

"The default Adaptive theme doesn't show the menu, just the hamburger. To get the menu back, go to Preferences -> Select Theme… and choose anything other than Adaptive.sublime-theme."

how to show the menu bar in sublime text 4 (windows)

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Feb 07 '23 at 03:39

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Go to Preferences -> Settings. To the file on the right in the curly braces add the following. Was the only way that I found to use a theme other than default and get the menu bar back.

"themed_title_bar": false,

answered Feb 07 '23 at 03:39

Nathan Liebespeck

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Forgot to add, Save the file and your menu bar should come back. – Nathan Liebespeck Feb 07 '23 at 03:40

score 0 · Answer 12 · answered May 03 '23 at 13:08

None of the options worked for me (Win 11), only solution is to uninstall including manually removing any remaining Sublime folders as in, Users<UserName>\AppData\Local and Users<UserName>\AppData\Roaming, then reinstall...

Also note... Ctr + Shift + P doesn't show any Toggle Menu option (but does after you fix it)...

Note 2... problem happened after installing theme but affected all themes so changing theme didn't fix it, I tried several...

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