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Prateek
Asked: 2012-02-03 00:38:12 +0800 CST

How to get back menu bar in Kile after switching to LXDE?

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I switched from Gnome/Unity to LXDE on my netbook because it has only 1 GB RAM. Now the Kile window has no menu bar. How does one get it back?

This does not affect all KDE applications - for example, Kate does have a menu bar.

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  1. Best Answer

    In ~/.kde/share/config/kilerc, look for the section [KileMainWindow], and within that look for the line menubar=Disabled. Change Disabled to Enabled or delete this line.

    Thanks to @fossfreedom for suggesting looking in ~/.kde/share/config/kilerc.

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  2. converted comment to answer

    A similar issue was reported on ubuntuforums.

    In this case it was reported against Kubuntu - so the observation that you have switched to LXDE perhaps is not the key issue here.

    The resolution was to rename the file ~/.kde/share/config/kilerc.

    This file will then be regenerated when you next start Kile.

    This will result in your own customisation settings being lost but user-defined shortcuts are retained.

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  3. If you do not want to destroy your settings:

    • Open the file ~/.kde/share/config/kilerc with an editor.
    • Look for [KileMainWindow].
    • Change the setting MenuBar=Disabled to MenuBar=Enabled.
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  4. The location of kilerc on my PC is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/kilerc. As mentioned in the other answers, go to this file and change menubar=Disabled to menubar=Enabled.

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