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# Configuration
## User Interface
Historically Prelude had adopted a very minimalistic approach to UI and
had hidden by default Emacs's menu bar and tool bar. This was changed a bit
in Prelude 1.1 for the sake of being more approachable to newcomers to Emacs
and now the menu bar is displayed by default. The tool bar is still hidden, as
it's quite big and not that useful.
!!! Tip
You can toggle the menu bar by pressing `F12`.
Furthermore, Prelude 1.1 displays line numbers (via `global-nlinum-mode`), just
like most "modern" editors and IDEs do these days. You can go back to the way
things were by setting `prelude-minimalistic-ui` to `t` in `personal/preload` or
by adding the following snippets to your personal config:
``` emacs-lisp
(global-nlinum-mode -1)
(menu-bar-mode -1)
```
!!! Note
The first approach is better as it would prevent those UI elements from
appearing temporarily.
## Color Themes
Emacs provides a dozen of