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user258532
Asked: 2017-04-14 01:05:31 +0800 CST

Missing menu in Kate

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It's a rather simple problem, but I can't find the solution:

The menu bar in Kate (File, Edit, ...) has disappeared, and I tried looking up in the katerc file. How can I restore it?

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  1. Best Answer

    Had the same problem... and CTRL+M also solved it for me. I never actively hide my menus, so arriving at this solution was not intuitive. No idea what (bug?) caused the sudden disappearance of the menu.

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  2. I solved the problem by:

    • looking for katerc with find * | grep katerc, and deleted it
    • sudo apt purge kate
    • sudo apt install kate
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  3. Came across this same bug this week. Unfortunately I had [Ctrl] + [M] mapped to something else. My solution was to find the file .katerc (in ~/.config on my Kubuntu machine), and invoked (courtesy of http://askubuntu.com/a/1274762/1002900)

    find ./ -type f -exec sed -i 's/MenuBar=Disabled/MenuBar=Enabled/g' {} \;
find ./ -type f -exec sed -i 's/Show Menu Bar=false/Show Menu Bar=true/g' {} \;

    to replace

    MenuBar=Disabled and Show Menu Bar=false

    with

    MenuBar=Enabled and Show Menu Bar=true

    I closed all my open kate windows, restarted, and my menu bar was back.

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  4. Three things are required to get your menus back under the title bar.

    1. cd into your .config folder and execute:

      find ./ -type f -exec sed -i 's/MenuBar=Disabled/MenuBar=Enabled/g' {} \;

    2. In KDE settings > Window management > Menu tab > remove burger applications menu from title bar in both active and inactive windows

    3. In KDE settings > Startup > Services > disable the menu daemon

    Plus if you want your top menus in kate, hit ctrl+m twice.

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