change toggle menu-bar activation key

Question

I use i3 window manager on Linux which has already Alt as keybinding for actions and have as keyboard-centric user no use for menu-bars. Therefor I would like to know how to change the keybinding to hide the menu-bar in Visual Studio Code – so that it isn't activated by "accident" all time when running i3-actions.

Changing the keybinding settings to { "key": "alt", "command": "-workbench.action.toggleMenuBar"} has no effect. Also binding toggleMenuBar to another key works, but doesn't remove the existing Alt binding.

Answer 1

Latest releases should have option in the User Settings file.

I tested it in Version 1.16.1 .

"window.menuBarVisibility": "hidden",

Set it to hidden as above. This will disable the toggling of menu using alt key.

You may want to bind the toggling to other key in keybindings.json file:

{
    "key": "f10",
    "command": "workbench.action.toggleMenuBar"
}

Here I have bind it to F10 .