Bug 1091311

Summary:	RFE: Add option to hide menu bar in virt-manager VM window
Product:	[Community] Virtualization Tools	Reporter:	Samo Dadela <samo_dadela>
Component:	virt-manager	Assignee:	Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bazsi77, berrange, ciseb, crobinso, gscrivan, jcrey, rbalakri, virt-maint
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Description Samo Dadela 2014-04-25 10:54:20 UTC

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Enhancement request: 
- Add option to hide menu bar in virt-manager VM window

It would be nice to be able to hide the menu bar so more space is available for VM. To get back the menu a hotkey could be defined (ctrl-alt-shift-M). Another key would rotate between console<->details<->snapshots.

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Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2015-04-09 16:46:18 UTC

Thanks for the suggestion. We could do this, but IMO the potential for accidental 'hey where'd my menu bar go, I don't know how to get it back' is too high and I know we'd get complaints at some point.

I'd rather people use spice auto resize support or fullscreen mode if they want to maximize screen size. Those options avoid the tricky issues for us

Comment 2 Samo Dadela 2015-04-24 14:07:23 UTC

Well, if this would be configurable you can stick a nice disclaimer beside it "enabling this feature will make the menu bar disappear... to get it back...". 

There are other products that let you enter full screen mode and the only way to get out is to know the key combination... 

I use the menu bar so rarely that its only effect is to burn-in itself in the monitor ;)

I was hoping to use virt-manager (poor snapshot support, gui problems) with KVM (bad 2D acceleration support)... but both still suffer from small problems so I went back to VBox/VmWare... will check back in a few years ;)

Comment 3 sparta 2018-07-13 03:58:51 UTC

Hi, sorry to respond to this old bug. I was wondering if this option could be reconsidered? Or even just having this option as a --flag? I think the last comment by Samo Dadela is very reasonable. Thank you.

Comment 4 Juan Carlos Rey 2020-04-28 08:30:32 UTC

I beg your perdon for going on about this again. I would be nice to sysadmins to enable other users, sysadmins of some VMs, to stop/start/force_stop the VM without touching VM's config parameters. Everyone is mature enough to know what to do at his own risk... ;-)

Comment 5 Bazsi 2021-03-10 07:09:32 UTC

I've scratched an itch and implemented it in this PR:

https://github.com/virt-manager/virt-manager/pull/233