GNOME – How to move window buttons 20th August 2009 at 10:19 am
Some people prefer their min,max,close window buttons to be on the left – mac style.
Somehow I managed it then forgot how I did it so when I finally found how to do it AGAIN!, I thought I’d share it.
GNOME calls this “metacity button layout”.
From a terminal window, type gconf-editor.
Now navigate to apps/metacity/general and change the button_layout value as required.
The colon (:) indicates the left-side and right-side divider.
So, Windows style would be menu:minimize,maximize,close and Mac style would be close,minimize,maximize:menu.