<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
type="task"
id="pref-menubar">
<info>
<revision version="0.1" date="2013-02-21" status="candidate"/>
<link type="guide" xref="index#preferences"/>
<link type="guide" xref="pref#global"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="pref-keyboard-access"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="app-fullscreen"/>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Sindhu S</name>
<email>sindhus@live.in</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
<credit type="copyright editor">
<name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
<email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
<credit type="copyright editor">
<name>Michael Hill</name>
<email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
<desc>Hide and restore the menubar.</desc>
</info>
<title>Menubar visibility</title>
<p>You can enable or disable the menubar as desired. This may be useful if
you have limited screen space. To hide the menubar:</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>Select <gui style="menu">View</gui> and deselect
<gui style="menuitem">Show Menubar</gui>.</p>
</item>
</steps>
<p>To restore the menubar:</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>Right click in <app>Terminal</app> and select
<gui style="menuitem">Show Menubar</gui>.</p>
</item>
</steps>
<p>To enable or disable the menubar by default in all <app>Terminal</app>
windows that you open:</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Edit</gui> <gui style="menuitem">
Preferences</gui> <gui style="tab">General</gui></guiseq>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Select or deselect <gui>Show menubar by default in new terminals</gui>.</p>
</item>
</steps>
<note style="tip">
<p>You can <link xref="adv-keyboard-shortcuts">set a keyboard
shortcut</link> to show and hide the menubar.</p>
</note>
</page>