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

Question

I updated my sublime text after which I can't seem to see my menu bar on top of the screen but now have to click the 3 lines button to view it.is there any way to make show the menu bar like normal again?

I tried going to "view" and enabling it but I can't find any "menu bar setting"

Heti

Answer 1

I think showing the hamburger menu is a feature of your current theme. Try changing your theme Preferences-->Select Theme

Alternatively customize your theme Preferences-->Customize Theme (refer to your themes documentation).

Customize the rules in the theme file as required.

See the sublime forum post

Example found from the link above, works for the adaptive theme:

"rules":
[
    {
        "class": "title_bar",
        "bg": "#0000"
    }
]

Happy Coding:)

Atman

This is the correct answer. 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. – Ungracious

Is there a way to change the menubar while keeping my current theme? I tried different themes like Agila, gruvbox and all of them show the menubar with hamburger. I don't want to keep the default sublime theme. – Rattlebrain

@RaghavArora Answer has been updated to include additional information on customizing themes. – Atman

this was driving me nuts after a recent update. thanks! – Stinkpot

This worked! Once you've clicked Preferences -> Customize Theme - copy and paste the code above into \User\<theTheme>.sublime-theme window that pops up – Salazar

I am using "Material Theme". After customising the theme, you have to run window.run_command("toggle_menu") in the console to show the menu. The command is from @MattDMo's answer. – Ackerman

Answer 2

This is kind of strange, as my View menu has a Hide/Show Menu option on it right near the top. At any rate, to show the menu (or hide it again), select View → Show Console (or hit Ctrl`) and enter the following command:

window.run_command("toggle_menu")

and the menu should show up again.

Ungracious

hi , so i copied the code u suggested and pasted it in the console, and pressed "enter" (also i apologize if this is the wrong way to do it,I am quite new to this) there was no change after I did this . is there anything that I am doing wrong or have to further do? – Heti

@doctorbyte see this answer. Changing your theme away from Adaptive (and themes based on it) is the correct way to solve your problem. – Ungracious