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How to toggle/remove menu bar in Opera?

Sunday, 25. June 2006, 12:40:20

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Toggle menu bar using keyboard shortcut
Toggle menu bar using button
Main menu as submenu in right click menu
Main menu via keyboard shortcut
Remove menu bar

Toggle menu bar using keyboard shortcut (ALT+F11)

In your keyboard setup, delete Platform Unix before F11 alt under Application section.

Opera menu bar
Before

Opera menu bar disabled
After

Toggle menu bar using button

Drag & drop Menu (click arrrow to view menu items or click Menu to enable/disable menu bar) or Menu (click to view menu items or click & hold to enable/disable menu bar) button to any toolbar.

Opera menu button
Click Menu to toggle menu bar & arrow to show menu items

Main menu as submenu in right click menu

In your menu setup, add Submenu, Menu, Browser Menu Bar under [Document Popup Menu] section.

Opera main menu as submenu in right click menu
Main menu as submenu in right click menu

Main menu via keyboard shortcut

Create a new keyboard shortcut with action Show popup menu,"Browser Menu Bar"

You can create ALT+F to open File menu, ALT+E to open Edit menu, etc... 

f alt = Show popup menu, "Browser File Menu"
e alt = Show popup menu, "Browser Edit Menu"
v alt = Show popup menu, "Browser View Menu"
b alt = Show popup menu, "Browser Bookmarks Menu"
g alt = Show popup menu, "Browser Widgets Menu"
s alt = Show popup menu, "Browser Feeds Menu"
t alt = Show popup menu, "Browser Tools Menu"
w alt = Show popup menu, "Browser Window Menu"
h alt = Show popup menu, "Browser Help Menu"

Remove menu bar

Uncheck Show Menu and restart Opera.

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Comments

Anonymous 24. June 2008, 18:54

n/a writes:

How can you remove just a single button from that menu?
The button 'Feeds', which I don't use, recently appeared and I want to get rid of it.

Tamil 24. June 2008, 19:29

How can you remove just a single button from that menu?

By commenting/removing that line in menu setup.

The button 'Feeds', which I don't use, recently appeared and I want to get rid of it.

If you don't use mail or feed, note path to mail directory, close Opera and remove it.

[or]
If you don't know how to edit menu setup see this. Under [Browser Menu Bar] place a semi-colon before the following line.
Feature Feeds, Submenu, M_MENU_BAR_FEEDS_SUBMENU, Browser Feeds Menu

Anonymous 25. June 2008, 22:36

n/a writes:

Thanks a lot :)
I have another question, which is kind of offtopic, but I don't know where else to ask it. Is there a way to remove the resolution indicator (introduced in version 9.50) displayed just above the menu bar (and in the taskbar as well)? I think it's pretty useless information.

Tamil 26. June 2008, 04:57

Could you give screenshot?

Anonymous 26. June 2008, 15:45

n/a writes:

If those links do not work, try this:
http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/2247/rimp4.jpg

Tamil 26. June 2008, 15:51

How to remove numbers before web page title in Opera title bar?

BTW, it is not introduced in 9.50.

Anonymous 26. June 2008, 17:18

n/a writes:

Thanks again.
My bad, I thought it was introduced in 9.50, because it appeared when I installed it. Haven't really noticed that option in the preferences menu before. I was searching for "resolution indicator", and not "numbers", as it is referred to. Guess that's why I couldn't find this link.

Anonymous 30. July 2008, 02:27

Anonymous writes:

Thanks, it works

Anonymous 30. July 2008, 02:29

Anonymous writes:

How to change the length of "address input" area?
I move it to tab bar to enlarge the working space, but it is in a fixed length (about 4cm) and I want to enlarge it, thank you

Tamil 30. July 2008, 03:25

It is not possible to change the length of address field.

Anonymous 30. August 2008, 09:18

kabo writes:

On my site there is a menu a bar falling in I.E all is visible well, and in Opera there is no movement all on all sheet of the menu how it is possible to correct, thanks, what is a script that ,?

Tamil 30. August 2008, 09:40

I can't understand. :frown:

oldskoolmir 6. November 2008, 15:03

hi guys does anyone know what im doing wrong here, trying to get a limited unix box to run opera in kioskmode off a usb pen, have it running but wont run in kioskmode

./opera -personaldir mnt/disc1 -nosession http://www.google.co.uk -kioskmode
(personaldir used as root is read only)
any help would be brilliant

thanks
james

Anonymous 10. February 2009, 02:06

Anonymous writes:

Great shit, guys! Been wanting this but I didn't think it was possible 'till I saw a screenshot without a sysMenu. One google later I'm a happy camper with the latest in 8.54 minimalism.

Kudos for the work put - helps me a lot.

serious 23. February 2009, 17:14

thx, tamil. great for my acer aspire one (1024*600 is a really small resolution when there are some unused bars in the way :wink:)

Sean 10. May 2009, 13:42

Thanks for the menu button. Cleans up lots of screen space.

Ivan 19. May 2009, 05:33

thank you, Tamil.
this is good stuff for us minimalists.

Anonymous 18. June 2009, 12:04

Mesut Gazi writes:

Just edit 'Keybard Settings' and then replace 'Platform Unix' with 'Platform Windows-Unix-MCE' before 'F11 alt' under 'Application' section.

Then hit the 'Alt' + 'F11'.




www.mesutgazi.com

Magnus Ap Rhys 10. July 2009, 08:01

Thanks for your help Tamil!

Anonymous 16. July 2009, 20:05

Sascha writes:

hey Tamil,

when i try to remove the toolbar in the newest Opera 10 Beta release, a new icon will appear beside my tab-bar and I'm not able to remove it like other elements. Any ieas?

Tamil 16. July 2009, 23:32

Currenlty, you can't remove it. :frown:

Anonymous 26. July 2009, 22:13

Anonymous writes:

doesn't work on mac

Anonymous 25. August 2009, 18:13

Anonymous writes:

How can I remove the bookmarks from appearing in my location bar? Thanks

Anonymous 5. September 2009, 15:34

Sweny writes:

hello, i have hided menu but i want remove shortcut "alt" but i cant find him in shortcut manager in opera. I am ventrilo user and i speak with this button. So you can imagine what happens. Thanks for help.

Tamil 5. September 2009, 16:50

Currently, not possible to remove it. :frown:

Anonymous 15. November 2009, 04:14

Anonymous writes:

its not happening

Tamil 15. November 2009, 04:24

Which one did you try?

Anonymous 26. November 2009, 11:06

Anonymous writes:

Still works excellent thanks.

Anonymous 4. December 2009, 05:02

Anonymous writes:

Thsi si the first thing i do after installing opera

Anonymous 13. December 2009, 00:36

edot writes:

i'm using opera 10.but i could not browse the internet now because after i type the address then press Enter the pages did not show,just show blank page, but the pdf reader appear(adobe acrobat reader) show message "adobe reader could not open the page with.htm because it is either not a supported file type or or because the file has been damaged (for example it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded".what should i do sir?thank's.

xpyctjawii 13. December 2009, 16:33

Thanks.

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