[Solved] mousepad view menu option

dtd · 2015-04-02 17:37:47

I am running xfce 4.12, mousepad 0.4.0_1

There is a new option, you can turn off the menubar. Cool. How does one get it back?? My soultion was to uninstall mousepad, delete the directory ~/.config/Mousepad; delete the file ~/.config/dconf/user and reinstall mousepad.

ToZ · 2015-04-02 17:56:55

Since version 0.4x is a GTK3 version, the settings are stored in gconf and are accessible via dconf-editor (GUI) or gsettings (CLI). Using the following commands, you can disable:

gsettings set org.xfce.mousepad.preferences.window menubar-visible false

...or enable:

gsettings set org.xfce.mousepad.preferences.window menubar-visible true

...the menubar.

You can list all of Mousepad's settings via:

gsettings list-recursively org.xfce.mousepad.preferences

MountainDewManiac · 2015-04-02 23:25:30

dtd wrote:

There is a new option, you can turn off the menubar. Cool.

No, cool would be if you could still access the menus even when they are hidden (as an example, like one can in Firefox). The current state of things is either a kludge or a bug, depending on how you look at it. Having to use a separate application - or the terminal - to recover the menu falls under the heading of "workaround," so I'm calling it a bug.

Regards,
MDM

Last edited by MountainDewManiac (2015-04-02 23:26:13)

ozjd · 2015-04-03 00:31:18

You can easily get it back. Just right click anywhere in Mousepad and there is an option on the right click menu.

MountainDewManiac · 2015-04-03 01:02:14

ozjd wrote:

You can easily get it back. Just right click anywhere in Mousepad and there is an option on the right click menu.

Lol, okay, thanks. I'll retract my previous statement then (with apologies to the developer). I suppose the owner's manual probably mentions it, but Help/Contents just takes me to some generic Xfce - that, strangely enough, doesn't even have the term "mousepad" anywhere on the page. Go figure.

Regards,
MDM

ozjd · 2015-04-03 01:13:17

MountainDewManiac wrote:

ozjd wrote:
You can easily get it back. Just right click anywhere in Mousepad and there is an option on the right click menu.
Lol, okay, thanks. I'll retract my previous statement then (with apologies to the developer). I suppose the owner's manual probably mentions it, but Help/Contents just takes me to some generic Xfce - that, strangely enough, doesn't even have the term "mousepad" anywhere on the page. Go figure.
Regards,
MDM

Documentation is usually the last thing that gets fixed. I found it just by experimenting, or maybe I was trying to do something else. The option only appears if the menubar is off.

ToZ · 2015-04-03 02:23:58

ozjd wrote:

You can easily get it back. Just right click anywhere in Mousepad and there is an option on the right click menu.

And this old dog learns a new trick. I had no idea. Thanks.

dtd · 2015-04-03 20:30:49

The right-click does not work for me, but I broke some other stuff in the way I got it back. The 'gsettings' command works as advertised. Thanks to all. Perhaps a what's new might head off some of these issues. At the very least I would have less to complain about smile Anyway marking this as solved

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