Menu bar missing about xournalpp HOT 12 CLOSED

Simply hit F10 or use menu View > Show Menubar.

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F10 doesn't seem to work and I do not have the view menu, the menu bar is missing that's my whole issue

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Maybe F11 helps in that case? If not, you can edit the settings.xml file (stored in the config folder, ~/.config/xournalpp on Linux) directly and change

<property name="menubarVisible" value="false"/>

to

<property name="menubarVisible" value="true"/>

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Hmm, there is something strange. When I hide the menubar and restart Xournal++, the menubar appears again (even though the "Show menubar" option doesn't seem activated in menu View. Looks like for you it is the opposite. We'll have to investigate.

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The menubar being always visible on startup goes back to the introduction of the action database, which isn't in the stable release for now, so that's a separate issue.

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is there any way i can get a menu bar for now? any setting in the settings.xml that will move it into the window maybe?

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I would guess the issue is caused by the global app menu (the native KDE thing) and GTK not getting along well enough.

You might try to launch Xournal++ with

env GDK_BACKEND=x11 xournalpp

If that doesn't work, try searching for other tricks how people got their GTK apps to work with the global app menu, or try disabling the global app menu completely.

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Wanted to clarify, everything worked when I launched the program with your command and my question was if I can somehow set some sort of launch option like this for it to always launch in this "mode"?

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I think you can right-click on the app icon in the KDE app menu, and edit the command there.

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I don't think there's an option like that, at least not for me. However, I solved my problem by editing the .desktop file of xournal++, i simply edited the exec= to the command from above. Thanks to you all for the help!

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