Menu Bar Missing or Hidden
I've just installed Musescore on the Manjaro operating system and the menu bar is missing. By menu bar I refer to the File Edit View etc etc usually to be found where I've annotated the screenshot. I've searched for an answer but failed to find one. Any ideas?
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Installed from the AppImage or from somewhere else?
I also see that you're on a custom workspace; are you sure your workspace doesn't set an empty menu explictly?
In reply to Installed from the AppImage… by jeetee
Installed from the add/remove software in Manjaro. The custom desktop was my attempt to turn on the menu bar. It made no difference
In reply to Installed from the add… by Stewart Black
Get the AppImage and revert to factory settings
In reply to Get the AppImage and revert… by Jojo-Schmitz
I shall try this, thank you
In reply to I shall try this, thank you by Stewart Black
Exactly the same except it now says AppImage
In reply to Exactly the same except it… by Stewart Black
Factory reset?
In reply to Factory reset? by Jojo-Schmitz
Of what? The whole computer? Or of Musescore? I can't do anything with Musescore because I can't access the menus..
It's a poser
In reply to Of what? The whole computer?… by Stewart Black
MuseScore. And from the commandline, the -F option
In reply to Of what? The whole computer?… by Stewart Black
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/revert-factory-settings#instruction…
In reply to Exactly the same except it… by Stewart Black
What is the deal with those up/down arrows in the title bar to the far right?
In reply to What is the deal with those… by Jojo-Schmitz
Maximize and minimize the window
In reply to What is the deal with those… by Jojo-Schmitz
The up and down arrows are minimise and maximise, respectively.
I have attempted to replicated the issue on my PC and cannot.
I am not familiar with this software, is there a keyboard shortcut to hide/show the menu bar?
In reply to The up and down arrows are… by [DELETED] 54472065
Probably not.
Try ALT-H, does it open the help menue? If yes, there you can find 'Revert to Factory Settings'.
In reply to Exactly the same except it… by Stewart Black
In theory it's possible for a custom workspace to remove the menus, and I can see from the screenshot there there is a custom workspace involved (called "1" apparently). So maybe it's a bad workspace file? Try switching to a known good workspace like Basic or Advanced. And if that doesn't help, definitely be sure to try the factory reset - run from command line with "-F".
In reply to Exactly the same except it… by Stewart Black
This looks like a window manager integration issue. Unless it does what Vivaldi does in such scenarios and hide the menu in a popup from the program icon. So what happens when you click on the icon in the top-left?
(And I also saw the suggestion to Alt+H when the MuseScore window has focus, which is a good test).
In reply to This looks like a window… by jeetee
Alt+H did nothing. In facts none of the Shift, Alt, Ctrl commands helped
If (perhaps?) similar to Linux, could this be related to your use of something like menu bar integration - e.g., with a Unity interface?
![menu.png]( "menu.png")
Something like a 'global menu':
Hi guys - sorry I abandoned ship yesterday, had a gig to get to. Am working through the problem with a tech wizard, hopefully we'll sort it and if so I'll let everyone know. The workspace I created because neither basic nor advanced worked and by creating one I could check a box to show menu. Needless to say this didn't work. I'll now try the other suggestions.
In reply to Hi guys - sorry I abandoned… by Stewart Black
Which windows manager you're using? For KDE for example maybe take a look here: https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=manjaro%20menu%20bar%20disappered&addon…?
Maybe check it also with another windows manager.
In reply to Hi guys - sorry I abandoned… by Stewart Black
That box in the workspace dialog isn't to control whether the menu bar shows or not - it's to enable you to customize the menu bar, and then have those customizations saved as part of the workspace. And this is definitely not what you want - it then breaks the ability for MuseScore updates to actually add new commands, because you've said to use your custom menu instead. So, delete that workspace before moving on.
Sounds like it is a window manager issue then. MuseScore currently uses the standard Qt mechanism for creating menus, and this integrates with all window managers that use standard methods of rendering menus. But there could indeed exist window managers that use non-standard means that don't work with Qt. Hopefully they provide an option to allow applications to use a compatibility mode. You'd have to consult the documentation for your particular window manager.
In reply to That box in the workspace… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you. This is an intriguing problem with no obvious solution. I have help trying to fix it but it's not yielding yet
In reply to Thank you. This is an… by Stewart Black
This seems strange to me since Manjaro seems to be a pretty popular distribution. If it were broken for all Manjaro users, I'd think we'd be hearing it about it from others as well.
In any case, MuseScore 4 is coming pretty soon, and it doesn't use the standard Qt menu system. This creates other issues on some systems, but it may happen to solve the problem on yours. I encourage you to try out a nightly build (see Download / Software above, then scroll down to the section for development builds, and be sure to grab a nightly build, not the incorrectly-labeled "beta" which is actually nothing of the sort).
In reply to This seems strange to me… by Marc Sabatella
Not only does it work for others on Manjaro, it works for a friend of mine who installed the OS from the same flash drive as me.