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.


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