How to restore the menu bar in Visual Studio Code

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I disabled the menu bar in preferences and it disappeared as expected  Now there s no way to get to the preferences menu again  How do I get it back

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If you are like me - you did this by inadvertently hitting F11 - toggling fullscreen mode  https   code visualstudio com shortcuts keyboard-shortcuts-windows pdf

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It s also possible that you have accidentally put the IDE into Full Screen Mode  On occasion  you may be inadertently pressing F11 to set FullScreen mode to On   If this is the case  the Accepted Answer above will not work  Instead  you must disable Full Screen mode  View   Appearance   Full Screen    Please see the attached screenshot

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Another way to restore the menu bar is to trigger the View  Toggle Menu Bar command in the command palette  F1

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You have two options   Option 1  Make the menu bar temporarily visible    press Alt key and you will be able to see the menu bar     Option 2  Make the menu bar permanently visible   Steps    Press F1 Type user settings Press Enter Click on the      top right corner of the window  to open settings json file see the screenshot Then in the settings json file  change the value to the default  window menuBarVisibility    default  you can see a sample here  or remove this line from JSON file  If you remove any value from the settings json file then it will use the default settings for those entries  So if you want to make everything to default settings then remove all entries in the settings json file

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Press Ctrl   Shift   P to open the Command Palette   Enter image description here  Enter image description here  After that  you write menu Option is enabled

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None of these worked for me in Ubuntu 16 4

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Some changes to this coming in v1 54  see https   github com microsoft vscode-docs blob vnext release-notes v1 54 md updated-application-menu-settings  Updated Application Menu Settings The window menuBarVisibility setting for the application menu visibility has been updated to better reflect the options  Two primary changes have been made  First  the default option for the setting has been renamed to classic  Second  the Show Menu Bar entry in the the application menu bar now toggles between the classic and compact options  To hide it completely  you can update the setting  or use the context menu of the Activity Bar when in compact mode

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press Alt to seee the Menubar and then go to view - appearance and remove the check from the fullscreen option

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To restore menu bar visibility so that you don t press key Alt to make the menu bar visible and the menu bar remains visible all the time  see the setting below   You inadvertently changed the value from  default  to  toggle   so restore the setting to  default  as shown below    window menuBarVisibility    default

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Press Ctrl   Shift   P to open the Command Palette  then write command   Toggle Menu Bar

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Press Alt to make the menu visible and then in the View menu choose Appearance - gt  Show Menu Bar  macOS  If you are in Full-Screen mode you can either move the cursor to the top of the screen to see the menu  or you can exit Full-Screen using Ctrl Cmd F  or   F in alien s script

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In version 1 36 1 I tried to follow the steps mentioned in the previous answers and noticed that the Toggle Menu Bar has moved to a different location and has been renamed to Show Menu Bar  Follow these steps    Press Alt to make menu visible Click on the View menu  navigate to the Appearance option and choose Show Menu Bar

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