Community-edition: Add option to hide menu bar

Created on 3 Dec 2016 · 7Comments · Source: ramboxapp/community-edition

On some Linux environments, such as GNOME-Shell, the menu bar looks really clunky and out of place. Please add an option to hide it like other Electron apps do (e.g. Atom). Would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

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nsrosenqvist

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Oh right, we hide that option in Linux because in popular distros you can't hide it.

But there is a way you can hide it. Be sure to have Rambox closed, so then you have to find the ~/.Rambox/config.json file of Rambox, edit it and change the hide_menu_bar property to true. Open Rambox again.

saenzramiro on 4 Jan 2017

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Can you share to me a screenshot of how looks Rambox with the menu? And Atom without menu?

saenzramiro on 5 Dec 2016

This is a great idea! I have attached two screenshots with the Trello Unofficial Desktop app which also uses Electron and hides the menu on pressing Alt.

Here is a discussion on the Atom page where the same issue is resolved.

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hughwilliams94 on 31 Dec 2016

Did you check the "Auto-hide Menu bar" option in the Preferences?

saenzramiro on 3 Jan 2017

I don' see this option in the preferences sorry. I am running Version 0.4.5 on Arch Linux with Electron 1.4.7

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hughwilliams94 on 3 Jan 2017

Oh right, we hide that option in Linux because in popular distros you can't hide it.

saenzramiro on 4 Jan 2017

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Bingo, did just what I wanted! I have also seen this advice for other apps. Just in case anyone else needs to find the config.json mine was in the __~/.config/Rambox/__ directory.

hughwilliams94 on 4 Jan 2017

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