How can I hide the Tool-bar in Emacs persistently?

I have installed emacs23 on Linux Mint 8. I would like to hide the toolbar, and I can do it with Options > Show/Hide > Tool-bar. But the Tool-bar comes back next time I start emacs. How can I hide it persistently?

Jonas

Posted 2010-04-04T22:37:50.750

Reputation: 21 007

Answers

Add the following to your init file (~/.emacs or _emacs or ~/.emacs.d/init.el):

(tool-bar-mode -1)

michaelmichael

Posted 2010-04-04T22:37:50.750

Reputation: 849

Emacs has a nice built-in customization interface.

Select Options › Customize Emacs › Specific Option, start typing tool, then hit TAB to see the options starting with tool. Choose tool-bar-mode then. Toggle its value to switch it off, and press Save for future sessions.

viam0Zah

Posted 2010-04-04T22:37:50.750

Reputation: 1 909

Thanks, this was a more general solution. But when I pressed "Save for future sessions", I got "Cannot save customixations; init file was not fully loaded" ...so I think I have some problem with my .emacs-file, but I don't understand it. – Jonas – 2010-04-08T15:08:26.603

4Sanoj: the best fix for that, if you don't know any lisp, is to make an empty .emacs, and then copy parts of your old .emacs in one at a time and make sure no errors show up in the Messages buffer at startup for each portion you add back in. Or you can put a ";" before lines to comment them out, and follow a similar process of uncommenting a small section, and making sure there are no errors when you restart. – Justin Smith – 2010-04-12T07:11:31.313

I agree with michael. But if you only add this line to your .emacs file, there will be errors when you run emacs in the command line mode. Thus, a better solution may be adding the following to you .emacs file:

(if window-system
    (tool-bar-mode -1)
)

so that, tool bar will be hidden only when you run it in GUI. Emacs in command line mode does not seem to have a tool bar.

Yu Fu

Posted 2010-04-04T22:37:50.750

Reputation: 159

I'm not seeing this problem with Emacs 24 FWIW. – Paul Bissex – 2016-12-06T15:58:37.483

Just for future reference.

~/.emacs file with tool-bar, menu-bar and scroll-bar hidden

;; Disabling things
;;-----------------------------------------------------------------------
(menu-bar-mode -1) 
(toggle-scroll-bar -1) 
(tool-bar-mode -1) 

;;Note: If, after turning any of these off, you want to re-enable them for a single emacs window, you can do so by pressing Meta-x and then typing the command at the M-x prompt. (Copied from Web)
;;Example:
;;M-x tool-bar-mode
;;will turn the toolbar back on. 
;;-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Now, your emacs will look like this.

vineeshvs

Posted 2010-04-04T22:37:50.750

Reputation: 101