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At the top of my Evolution window I used to have a menu bar with items such as 'Files', 'Edit', 'View' and the like. But after experimenting a little with the different views, I have accidentally removed this menu bar.

Quite annoying, as it was my point of entry for changing the views in the first place, and no I cannot revert the change.

I feel like there should be a simple GUI way of making the menu bar show up again. But I haven't found that.

Instead I have skimmed through a bunch of config files to identify where this change of setting has been recorded. No luck.

I also tried manipulating accels ( as this thread explains ), to be able to open menu items by short-keys. No luck here either.

I'm running evolution 3.28.5-0 on ubuntu0.18.04.1

If someone could please help me I would be most grateful.

Kind regards.

Jakob
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I have found the answer:

Press the Alt key. This will momentarily show the menu bar. The while keeping pressing the Alt key you can choose View->Layout->Show Menu Bar

Esben Høg
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For some reason, I could not hold down the Alt key and select the View settings using the mouse. I had to hold down the Alt key and press 'V' key to access the options and then was able to set to show the menu bar.

gdesilva
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Yes, pressing the Alt key alone will only cause the menu bar to appear temporarily in certain OSes like Windows, I believe. Alt + v should work in most flavors of Linux.

INTP5
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