How do I disable menu-bar-mode only for tty frames?

Question

I run both gui frames and tty frames on the same server. I'd like to only have the gui frames have the menu-bar and I want all tty frames to not have a menu bar.

I'm confused by the menu bar docs, is there a way to do this?

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:38

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The function display-graphic-p returns nil for non-GUI Emacs. So something like the following should work:

(unless (display-graphic-p)
   (menu-bar-mode -1))

EDIT

My original answer only works for Emacs run only in a tty. Since you are using both GUI and TTY frames run from the same server, you need to modify individual frame parameters:

(defun contextual-menubar (&optional frame)
  "Display the menubar in FRAME (default: selected frame) if on a
    graphical display, but hide it if in terminal."
  (interactive)
  (set-frame-parameter frame 'menu-bar-lines 
                             (if (display-graphic-p frame)
                                  1 0)))

(add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions 'contextual-menubar)

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24956521/how-can-i-hide-the-menu-bar-from-a-specific-frame-in-emacs

edited May 23 '17 at 12:38

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answered Dec 20 '16 at 17:56

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Where would I put that? Like a `before-make-frame-hook`? – Aaron Jensen Dec 20 '16 at 18:17
I tried `before-make-frame-hook` and that did not work. – Aaron Jensen Dec 20 '16 at 18:24
The recommendation from Emacs dev is to use `display-graphic-p` now, instead of `window-system`. I forget why. ;-) (But either will work.) – Drew Dec 20 '16 at 20:53
Works for me thanks! Could you please remove the trailing space after `menu-bar-lines`? – Midiparse Nov 20 '17 at 12:08

How do I disable menu-bar-mode only for tty frames?

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