Windows: There should be an option to hide the menu bar.

[be5invis]

No description provided.

[alexdima]

Not sure if the fullscreen mode does this

[be5invis]

@alexandrudima Full screen mode indeed hides menu bar, but providing an option for normal mode is better.

[bpasero]

Sounds like a good area for a PR.

[rstat1]

If no one else is working on this, I'll take it.

[bpasero]

👍

[egamma]

It isn't on the December plan #917

[be5invis]

And well to avoid some inconvenience you can add a command to show the menu temporary.

[rstat1]

@egamma should I wait until January then? Or no?

[bpasero]

@rstat1 this just means we will not work on it so feel free to do the PR.

[rstat1]

So pull request #1090 is my attempt at adding this feature, please take a look and feel free to yell at me if I did it wrong :P

[bpasero]

This is Windows only.

[ristomatti]

@bpasero I couldn't find this from the backlog anymore. Is this issue still open? Also I didn't quite follow why the issue title was changed to target Windows only? I would really like to see this feature in Linux too!

One of the biggest reasons I like to use minimalistic editors is that I hate wasting screen space for stuff I will most certainly use through a keyboard or command palette. In case this is closed/removed from the backlog, should I create another feature request for it?

[bpasero]

From my testing the function I used to hide the menu did not work on Linux.

[ristomatti]

I figured that from the context but I don't see why that would affect this issue. The original issue reported by @be5invis had no platform defined IIRC. Maybe there's something I'm missing here but to me it seems like this issue is still a valid feature request (at least for the other platforms), and therefore should not be closed as the issue is not resolved.

I can report this separately as a multi-platform feature request in case that helps in some way (as this issue is already closed)?

[ristomatti]

I was tipped about the User Voice service on an another issue. In case it's of any help mapping GitHub issues and User Voice feature requests, here's a matching User Voice feature request: https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/293070-visual-studio-code/suggestions/8345181-hide-menu-bar

[bpasero]

Feel free to open a new feature request for linux

[bpasero]

Actually it seems that some Linux distros might support this feature so i could enable it for Linux too, but I cannot get it to work on Ubuntu 15 at least. @ristomatti would you be willing to try it out on your Linux distro?

[ristomatti]

@bpasero I'd be happy to do that. Just point me to the right direction what I need to do. Should I setup a Code development environment and then apply the pull request as a patch? Or is there a simpler way to do this?

[bpasero]

@ristomatti yes if you can setup VS Code to run out of sources on your Linux box, you can basically just flip the boolean flags for isWindows to isLinux here to give it a try: c34d2e7

[LiZhenNet]

I have hidden Menu Bar，but I do not konwn how to show it？keyboard shortcut？

[bpasero]

@LiZhenNet you can press the Alt key to bring it back briefly or F1 to find the command to toggle the setting back.

[ghost]

You should show a hint about "Alt" every time user hides menu. I just waste an hour searching for how to unhide the menu.

[bpasero]

We do that for our 1.0 release. You can always access any commands (including the menu toggle) from the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P).

[cnd]

may you point where I can correct translation of this menu action

[bpasero]

You can file a bug on it.

[ig0rsky]

How do I overwrite the behaviour of the alt key??

Tried this but didn't work:
keybinding.json:
{
"key": "alt",
"command": "",
}

[bpasero]

@NiggyWizzyWoz our next release adds a new setting window.menuBarVisibility that you can set to hidden to not show it even when you press Alt.

You can give our preview releases a try from: http://code.visualstudio.com/Download#insiders

[paradigmist]

@bpasero I have tried your solution on the vscode insider, but the menu bar is still invoked by alt key.

[bpasero]

@paradigmist and how did you change the setting? to what value?

[paradigmist]

@bpasero

{
    "window.menuBarVisibility": "hidden"
}

[bpasero]

It should work from our current insider build (1.10.0).

[vfhky]

You can edit the settings.json and append the configs blow.
"window.menuBarVisibility": "toggle"
Then you can use the key of Alt to switch.