New Freak UI @Arduino IDE v2.3.6 - 2025/05/21

Question

This shXt stop after I turn off the power, and bring Notebook back to home. @@"?

No any configuratin changed, just power NB off and on.

How this shXt happened, and how it solved !? No idea...

Anyway, Thanks for anyone provide suggestion here.

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After Auto-update to the latest Arduino IDE v2.3.6 :

My project become this one :

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Full Screen : Freak Menu Bar
Had try to close and open Arduino IDE again and again, not working...

BUT! Open New Sample Code - Look like UI is ok, with the SAME IDE on SAME PC :

• Different :

What's wrong with this UI ?
What Could I do now?
How to fix it??

In Traditional Chinese :
檔案 = File
編輯 = Edit
工具 = Tool
說明 = Help

? Is there anybody meet the same situation !???

Answer 1

It may help to temporarily configure for English in order to follow along.

Open user settings preferences

You can open a "command pallete" with CTRL-P and search for >preferences: open user settings (the > is typed and is significant):

Title Bar Style

In the "Window" section (on left), changing "Title Bar Style" to "native" is sufficient to get a traditional menu bar. So you can optionally change it. I know "title bar" and "menu bar" don't sound like they should be related at all, but the setting affects the menu bar. You will see a note about that in the next screen shot. Yours is apparently set to "custom", which then makes the following menu bar visibility setting relevant.

Classic menu style (when using "custom" title bar)

The Menu Bar Visibility is also in the Window section. You currently have "compact" selected apparently, along with "custom" title bar. So if you don't go with "native" Title Bar Style, then you need to chose something other than "compact". Choosing "classic" will cause the menu bar to look a lot like the native one.