How to enable global application menu in RStudio?

Solution 1:

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It is reported (see comments), that Ubuntu 16.04 and/or RStudio release 0.99.467 (using Qt5) or later do not support the following solution any more. See also the answer of lyz1990.

I found a solution on the RStudio forum (here). The issue has reported several times (e.g. here and here).

To enable the appmenu-qt for RStudio, link the qt4 menubar to the rstudio library folder. Run the following commands in a terminal:

cd /usr/lib/rstudio/bin/plugins
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/plugins/menubar

Then (close and) start rstudio. This is how it looks like:

Solution 2:

For recent versions of Rstudio with Qt5:

cd /usr/lib/rstudio/bin/plugins/platformthemes
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platformthemes/libappmenu-qt5.so libappmenu-qt5.so