How to restore the menu bar in Visual Studio Code

Question

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?

Answer 1

For Windows users:

For older versions (<1.54) of Visual Studio Code: Press Alt to make the menu visible temporarily. While the menu is visible go to the View menu and choose Appearance -> Show Menu Bar .

For newer versions see the following steps or if Alt does not work use Crtl + Shift + P for command pallete, type 'menu' and select View: Toggle Menu Bar

Alternativily open settings Ctrl+, , search for and change Window: Menu Bar Visibility to either classic or visible .

For macOS users:

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.

Answer 2

恢复菜单栏的另一种方法是在命令面板 ( F1 ) 中触发View: Toggle Menu Bar命令。

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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"

Answer 6

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

Answer 7

按 Ctrl + Shift + P 打开命令面板，然后输入命令：切换菜单栏

Answer 8

1. Click on the 'Manage' button.

   

2. Select 'Settings'.

   

3. In the search bar type: 'menu bar visibility'.

   

4. In the drop-down select 'classic' or 'visible'.

   

Answer 9

From Version: 1.56.2 on in OSX you need to update in settings.json file

"workbench.editor.showTabs": true

instead of

"window.menuBarVisibility": "default"

Answer 10

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

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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).

Answer 11

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

After that, you write menu
Option is enabled

Answer 12

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.

Answer 13

Press Ctrl+Shift+P, type menu, select View: Toggle Menu Bar and the menu bar should be back. If not add a comment

Answer 14

Here is a simple solution to bring back the activity bar. Just click on the view tab on top of vs code > appearance > then check activity bar then from there it has to appear

Answer 15

按 Alt 查看菜单栏，然后​​转到查看 - 外观并从全屏选项中删除检查

Answer 16

左右菜单点打开

Answer 17

All these answers were wrong for me. Press ALT.