[visual-studio-code] How to restore the menu bar in Visual Studio Code

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?

None of these worked for me in Ubuntu 16.4.

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

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

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

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.

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:

1. Press Alt to make menu visible
2. Click on the View menu, navigate to the Appearance option and choose Show Menu Bar

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

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:

1. Press F1
2. Type user settings
3. Press Enter
4. Click on the { } (top right corner of the window) to open settings.json file see the screenshot
5. 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).

Press Ctrl + Shift + P to open the Command Palette.

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After that, you write menu
Option is enabled

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.

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"