Sublime Text editor opens with no menu bar unless started with sudo

Question

I have installed Ubuntu 13.10 on VirtualBox 4.3.6, running on Windows 7. I have installed the VirtualBox Guest Additions on Ubuntu.

I have used this .deb file to install

Answer 1

Here is a simple solution that worked for me

Close the Sublime Text 3, if it is open. Open and edit the file ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Local/Session.sublime_session to make sure that, "menu_visible" is "true" in all places in that file.

"menu_visible": true,

Source: http://www.thefourtheye.in/2014/01/un-hiding-menu-bar-in-sublime-text-3.html

Answer 2

press Ctrl + Shift + p then type vmenu Select Toggle menu and enter. then check it.

Answer 3

For Ubuntu create this file sublime in /usr/bin/

#!/bin/bash
env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 /opt/sublime/sublime_text $@ 2>/dev/null &

Then chmod +x sublime. Put it in your executable path and you're good to go! If you have sublime in a different location you'll have to set that at this part '/opt/sublime/sublime_text'

You'll want to have errors routed to null since Glib throws up warnings (it's a known Ubuntu issue).

Answer 4

I solved in Ubuntu16.04! Sublime installation path is /opt/

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/sublime_text.desktop

Add env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 in Exec= before /opt/* as shown in fig.

Answer 5

Wipe out any saved Sublime editor settings, probably in ~/.sublime or similar.

Answer 6

If you are starting from a desktop shortcut you can edit the .desktop file's Exec line to be something like Exec=env UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 /usr/bin/sublime-text

See here for an example of how a similar problem was solved for eclipse.