Comment 1 for bug 873763

I see this behavior as well under Unity, even with global menus disabled (i.e. I uninstalled indicator-appmenu). Even with the profile setting "Show menubar by default in new terminals" unchecked, when I launch a new gnome-terminal, the menubar is displayed. As Victor described, the "Show menubar" option in the View menu is unchecked. If I check this option (to show the menu) and then un-check it again, the menubar goes away, but only for the current terminal. A menubar is again shown the next time I start a terminal.