Keyboard shortcut for showing / hiding sidebar or getting preferences?

[ylluminate]

I was fiddling around with ElectronMail and apparently stupidly turned off the menubar item and the sidebar. Now I cannot figure out a way to get into the settings or to toggle the sidebar back to on... Is there a way to fix this? Can I edit the .plist config or some config file on macOS to get it back?

[vladimiry]

Few options:

• Open "Options" through the tray menu, Then navigate to "General" settings block and disable the"Hide controls bar (F12)" toggle. "Options" tray menu item was intentionally added for this specific purpose - you got the toolbar hidden and don't remember the hotkey, so you go to settings and get it back.
• Use F12 hotkey.
• Another option is to change the hideControls value in config.json file located in settings folder.

I will keep the issue open as clearly there is a need to rework the feature since a similar issue was opened before. Maybe I will turn that toggle into "Enabled F12 toolbar hiding hotkey", so:

• Users will have to explicitly enable the hotkey.
• Then only F12 hotkey will toggle the toolbar visibility. Right now both toggle in setting modal and F12 toggle the visbility and F12 hotkey is always active.

[vladimiry]

Related issues:

• Option to hide the top bar when only one email provider #128
• Where did the account switcher go? #208

[vladimiry]

I will keep the issue open as clearly there is a need to rework the feature since a similar issue was opened before.

I ended up introducing a new toggle for enabling F12 hotkey:

[ylluminate]

F12 is not always enabled directly. I have, for example, F12 and fn-F12 both set for different volume controls on macOS since that is the default volume key w/o fn enabled.

I ended up nano ~/Library/Application\ Support/electron-mail/config.json and changing the value back to false for hideControls. Thanks much.

[vladimiry]

In new version F12 is disabled by default. This should reduce a chance similar issues happened to users.