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

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 2

None of these worked for me in Ubuntu 16.4.

Answer 3

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 4

press Alt to seee the Menubar and then go to view - appearance and remove the check from the fullscreen option

Answer 5

Press Ctrl + Shift + P to open the Command Palette, then write command : Toggle Menu Bar