Dolphin - Menu bar - How to enable permanently

[mibeon]

Hello friends,

does anyone know how can I make the menu in dolphin show always? I just switched from Gnome to KDE version and I searched for about an hour how to get the menu in dolphin beeing shown always.

I installed also another kde distro and the menu was there always.

Why not in EndeavourOS? Where can I enable it? I can’t find how to enable the menu permanently. Ctrl + M or enabling through the hamburger menu, enables it only temporary.

I can’t believe, there is no option for that.

UPDATE

I took a look into ./config/dolphinrc. There is an option MenuBar=Disabled. If I change this to Enabled (while dolphin is closed), save this file and open new dolphin window, menu isn’t there and the setting is overriden! Why? What the heck does override it?

Thank you any help.

[cactux]

A wild guess, have you added the global menu widget to your panel?

[MyNameIsRichard]

In Dolphin press Ctrl + m and it should be permanently displayed, at least it was when I did it. Maybe there’s a bug now?

[mibeon]

My state is clean. I didn’t changed things. Just wallpaper and app bar position.

I will update my post/question. There is something strange about dolphinrc.

[mibeon]

@mibeon

I will update my post/question. There is something strange about dolphinrc.

I just updated my post/question. There is something strange about dolphinrc. And yeah, Ctrl+M does enable it only for current active window. Every new window has no menu bar.

[MyNameIsRichard]

Do other settings get overridden?

[mibeon]

No, with that settings you see on my screenshot, only the MenuBar=Enabled is getting overriden everytime and set back to MenuBar=Disabled. Also my added setting ShowMenubar=true stays there.

[MyNameIsRichard]

So I’ve had a look at my dolphinrc and it also shows MenuBar=Disabled with the menu bar showing, so that could be a red herring. Try renaming ~/.local/state/dolphinstaterc and starting Dolphin to see if that clears it.

[mibeon]

I have done it some minutes ago. Menu bar still not there, but other dolphin settings are resetted.

[MyNameIsRichard]

Can you try an a completely new user with no other changes? If that doesn’t work, I’m out of ideas excepting maybe a new bug. Have a look at the KDE Bugzilla and maybe report it.

[keescase]

Welcome to the forum

Think I might have solved the problem , not sure it will stick after a reboot.
Add this to the top of Dolphinrc

MenuBar=Enabled

And comment out the one in the section main window, and save the file.

[mibeon]

Unfortunately, this do not work in my case.

I added the option on top, removed it from the [MainWindow} section, restarted the dolphin and the menu bar wasn’t there, but the f*** setting was.

[mibeon]

I just created completely new account and there the menu bar stays activated, as everybody would expect after enabling it either via Ctrl+M or via the menu. But in my account I can’t get it working.

I have also no more ideas

[keescase]

You still seem to have

ShowMenubar=true 

In place , which is not part of the default settings.

[MyNameIsRichard]

In that case I would delete both the state file and the rc file while dolphin is closed and the start it up and see if it works.

[ScottA]

In that case I would delete both the state file and the rc file while dolphin is closed and the start it up and see if it works.

I have the same issue, and this step has no effect for me. Still no menubar on startup.

[ricklinux]