By default check_mk places icons under a ‘hamburger’ icon as shown below. I wanted the ‘Custom Notes’ icon to be visible at all times rather than being located under the actions icon.
![](http://blog.redbranch.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-10-08-11_54_12-Checkmk-Local-site-red-Services-of-Host-things001.ams01.redbranch.net_.png)
To do that visit the ‘Global Settings’ menu item and under the ‘User Interface’ section find the option for ‘Builtin icon visibility’:
![](http://blog.redbranch.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-10-08-11_55_34-Checkmk-Local-site-red-Global-Settings-1024x54.png)
Then click ‘Add new element’ and choose the icon you want to be displayed – ‘custom notes’ for me but I also like having the graphs icon visible too.
![](http://blog.redbranch.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-10-08-11_56_24-Checkmk-Local-site-red-Global-configuration-settings-for-Check_MK.png)
After activating the change the icon appears in the interface without requiring a click to open the ‘actions’ menu:
![](http://blog.redbranch.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-10-08-11_57_00-Checkmk-Local-site-red-Services-of-Host-things001.ams01.redbranch.net_.png)