Is there a quick way to hide all toolbars? I know Audacity will remember the layout. What I want is a quick way to hide them without having to go to the menu 12 times every time the layout gets reset. The number of menus has exploded with the features added. For some reason, it’s easy to move them around and resize them, but to remove them I have to individually click on each menu item, which is tedious.
I looked at making a macro but there didn’t seem to be a way to make a macro to hide toolbar items.
Maybe save a copy of “audacity.cfg” file when you’ve hidden all the toolbars. Preferences - Audacity Manual #
I’d rename, rather than delete, the previous “audacity.cfg”,
so you have the option of reversing the changes.
Theoretically it should be possible to use the “Set Preference” macro command, but I’ve just tested in Audacity 3.4.2 and although the settings file (audacity.cfg) is updated, the update does not take affect and is reset when Audacity is closed. In short - it doesn’t work for Toolbars.
That leaves one other option, as described by Trebor, which is that you could save a copy of “audacity.cfg” with the Toolbar settings how you like them. Unfortunately this may have problems when updating Audacity as it has become quite common for new versions to have compatibility issues with older settings.
An alternative is that after updating Audacity:
Launch Audacity with default settings
Close Audacity
Open “audacity.cfg” in a plain text editor
Search and replace “Show=1” with “Show=0”
Save “audacity.cfg” with the changes
Launch Audacity - All Toolbars should now be hidden.
On Linux it is possible to set / unset multiple options by using spacebar to tick / un-tick rather than a mouse click.
I’ve not tested on other platforms.
This will be fixed in Audacity 4, which will both allow you to toggle multiple icons on and off at once, as well as switch between presets (workspaces).