What's the recommended way to automatically hide the toolbar and header in Jupyter Notebooks?

[Daniel Grady]

I'd like to add something to my `.jupyter/custom/custom.js` so that the toolbar and header are hidden by default. I was trying to figure out what actually happens when you click on the View > Toggle Header menubar item, without much success. It seems that all of these commands in the console do what I want:

• Jupyter.actions.call('jupyter-notebook:toggle-toolbar')
  
• Jupyter.toolbar.actions.call('jupyter-notebook:toggle-toolbar')
  
• Jupyter.toolbar.toggle()
  

Is one of these preferred? How would I accomplish this for the header as well? What actually happens when I click the item in the View menu?

Thanks for any suggestions!

– Daniel

[Thomas Kluyver]

On 19 February 2016 at 01:02, Daniel Grady <d.c....@gmail.com> wrote:

It seems that all of these commands in the console do what I want:

• Jupyter.actions.call('jupyter-notebook:toggle-toolbar')
  
• Jupyter.toolbar.actions.call('jupyter-notebook:toggle-toolbar')
  
• Jupyter.toolbar.toggle()

The first two are probably exactly the same, just with different references to the same actions object. Actions are for binding UI elements and keyboard shortcuts to. They probably call the third one internally. For now, I'd guess that the action names are likely to be a bit more stable, so I'd go with that - the JS API is still liable to change.

Thomas

[Brian Spiering]

What is the equivalent command to "Toggle Header? Jupyter.actions.call('jupyter-notebook:toggle-header) doesn't work.

[Brian Spiering]

Sorry - I was missing a "`". Jupyter.actions.call('jupyter-notebook:toggle-header') works :)