As has been reported in many posts of years past, the application menu bar (File … Edit … View …) has gone missing from almost all my applications.
Only Firefox seems to still have it.
The “Show Menu Bar” hotkey (CTRL + M) does nothing
How to put it back?
Any hints what to do in all this many post from the past?
And maybe this is in a desktop. Please tell us which one (Gnome, KDE, Xfce, …).
KDE
I think the change happened after I experimented with the “Titlebar Buttons” in Colors & Themes >> Window Decorations >> Configure Titlebar Buttons.
The problem is that adding the “Application Menu” has killed the menu bar completely, including on GTK applications, which don’t receive the “Application Menu” in their title bar at all, thereby paralyzing them.
Taking the “Application Menu” out does not return the old menu bar.
Here is one of many posts from the Internet on the issue. Embarrassingly for KDE, it’s over six years old.
Not related. TW now has Plasma6, and here the Global Menu works fine in all KDE apps.
Have you tried resetting your desktop since then? There is no reset button to do that but a tip from a KDE developer is here.
Solution was to remove Application Menu from settings and delete user .cache directory.
I had a similar issue, don’t know why though, because I haven’t messed with window decorations nor global menus. Only this solution helped. Now I’m hoping it won’t return again.
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