Override <ALT> to toggle menu bar on VS CODE - visual-studio-code

Question

What I want to achieve is as follows:
Disable ALT to show menu bar by toggle-menu-bar completely.
-> Potentially map ALT to a NULL action?
Use a different shortcut to toggle-menu-bar.
Is there a way to achieve this?

Answer 1

On Ubuntu I needed this two settings in settings.json :
"window.titleBarStyle": "custom",
"window.customMenuBarAltFocus": false
(VS Code restart might be required)
Related:
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/84227
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_36#_disable-alt-key-focus-of-the-custom-menu-bar

Answer 2

My only solution is to set menu always hidden to prevent interfering with alt-hotkeys. But enabling mnemonics still allows you to reveal it by pressing Alt+F for example.

Answer 3

I have tried this on Win10, and adding these 3 lines to settings.json will work for me, while the latest upvoted answer will make the Menu bar hidden, which is not what we want.
"window.titleBarStyle": "custom",
"window.customMenuBarAltFocus": false,
"window.enableMenuBarMnemonics": false,

Answer 4

I'm using v1.25.1 and the setting to disable ALT menu selection is "window.enableMenuBarMnemonics": false. You can keep the menu visible.

Answer 5

This fixed it for me (I'm using Linux)
"window.titleBarStyle": "custom"

Answer 6

The solution is to set menu always hidden to prevent interfering with alt-hotkeys. But enabling mnemonics still allows you to reveal it by pressing Alt+F for example.
This can be achieved with "window.menuBarVisibility": "hidden", "window.enableMenuBarMnemonics": true in settings.json. The enableMenuBarMnemonics seem to be the default and hence unnecssary.
To access menu, press Alt-F or Alt-E, or Alt-whatever
This answer originates from Dmitriy Botov's answer
and my comment on it

Answer 7

As in Dmitriy Botov answer, adding those lines
"window.customMenuBarAltFocus": false,
"window.enableMenuBarMnemonics": false,
"window.menuBarVisibility": "hidden",
to the config works, but when I toggle the menu bar with e.g. alt+f the menu stays open.
If I use the toggle menu bar command/keybind the setting of "window.menuBarVisibility": "hidden" will be changed to "window.menuBarVisibility": "classic" and then to "window.menuBarVisibility": "toggle" which enables showing the menu bar on alt key again.
However, I'm using the Settings Cycler extension and build a command with it that does the job for me:
1. in settings.json add:
"settings.cycle": [{
"id": "toggleMenuBar",
"values":[
{ "window.menuBarVisibility": "hidden" },
{ "window.menuBarVisibility": "visible" }
]
}
],
2. Set a keybind for the new command:
{
"key": "alt+shift+w",
"command": "settings.cycle.toggleMenuBar",
}
This shows the menu bar and removes the "toggle on alt key" functionality when hidden.
Tested on vscode 1.60.0

Answer 8

Just "window.menuBarVisibility": "hidden" works.

Answer 9

open setting from File --> Preferences --> Settings and in searchBox type menu bar
in Result you can turn off it and whatever you want to doenter image description here