IntelliJ IDEA Main Menu missing

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After updating my Ubuntu to 20.04 this night, I noticed that my IntelliJ Main menu is missing.

The Problem is exactly the same as described here: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000667510-Main-Menu-not-showing

However:

  • the SHOW_MAIN_MENU option shows no effect

  • the shortcut workaround is not working

  • the View | Appearance: Main Menu action is disabled:

Main menu toggle action is disabled

I have tried multiple reinstalls both via snap & zipped standalone. Including purges of ~/.config/JetBrains and ~/.local/share/JetBrains without success.

ubuntu-20.04 intellij-idea
2 Answers

Invoke Help | Find in action. Type Experimental features. Uncheck linux.native.menu.

user_89580600

Make Main Menu reappear IntelliJ IDEA in Ubuntu

System Details:

  • Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
  • IntellJ IDEA Community 2020.2.3

How the issue was created: I wanted to hide the menu

Steps:

  1. Click View > Appearance
  2. Uncheck Main Menu

Solution to make the menu reappear

Steps:

  1. Open folder: ~/.config/JetBrains

There could be more than one folder. I had two: IdeaIC2020.1, IdeaIC2020.2 Both has configuration xml files for the IntelliJ.

IdeaIC2020.2 seems to be the one with the configuration for IntelliJ.

IdeaIC2020.1 must have been for previous version or previous installation. Even if this is removed, IntelliJ worked.

  1. Open IdeaIC2020.2 > options > ui.lnf.xml

  2. Set value to true : option name="SHOW_MAIN_MENU" value="true"

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

user_25457950
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