Yed on MacOS 10.13 High Sierra top menu (main toolbar) is gone

Question

After the upgrade to MacOS 10.13 High Sierra the main toolbar is gone.

I have tried the following options as mentioned in other topics removed the settings folder in the user directory and I installed the latest Java 8 JDK 144.

But it didn't help.

Are there any other options?

Answer 1

It seems like this is an incompatible change in High Sierra and not specific to yEd (e.g. see https://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2017/Sep/msg00018.html). At this time, it is still unclear whether this has to be fixed by Apple or by Oracle in Java.

If you are not afraid of manually editing system files, you may try editing the yEd Info.plist file as mentioned in https://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2017/Sep/msg00025.html.

Another workaround would be not installing yEd, but downloading the zipped yEd jar from the yEd download page and run yEd directly from the jar file. This requires a system-wide Java installation, though.

Comments

Editing the info.plist worked for me. Thank you!

Answer 2

This problem has been fixed by Apple with macOS 10.13.1. So, if you are still on macOS 10.13, please consider upgrading.

Additionally, a workaround for macOS 10.13 has been added to the new yEd 3.17.2.