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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?

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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

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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

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