Always show menu in LibreOffice

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I'd like to always see the application menu, but by default that's hidden until I mouse onto the top line of the screen. Perhaps this is aesthetically pleasing, but it sucks in terms of usability.

I saw this old question about the same problem but the solutions there must be outdated. At least they don't work on my 14.04 system.

The purge-and-reinstall trick didn't work for me, it's the same as before.

How can I make the LibreOffice application menu always be visible?

@Korkel sorry but those links seem completely unrelated to my question. — Torben Gundtofte-Bruun, May 27 '14 at 20:32

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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You can disable the global menu for all applications. Look here.

You can also make the menu appear on the window title bar, by going to Appearance > Behaviour.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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answered May 27 '14 at 19:50

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 16 '15 at 23:00

Whilst this question is very specific about always displaying the menu in LibreOffice, you now have the ability in 14.04 (as long as you are fully up-to-date) to switch on the global & local window menus permanently on a Unity wide basis.

This ability was back-ported from 15.04 which has this ability (and is set permanently on)

To switch on permanently:

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity always-show-menus true

To switch off i.e. to autohide:

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity always-show-menus False

Always show menu in LibreOffice

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