question about smplayer

[Gilles J. Seguin]

On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 15:05 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
> every video I play comes up in full screen mode and thus hides the
> main menu bar. I have to press the Esc key to get the menu bar.
> 
> I checked the Settings and none of the tabs/menus of settings
> have fullscreen set.
> 
> Is there a way to fix this?

Your description point to; you are in in compact mode

you toggle menu bar with <control>-c