[TUTORIAL] Ubuntu 10.04 - moving buttons to right hand side of window border

[euantor]

The button placement in Ubuntu 10.04 has been the biggest gripe in this release of the distro complained about by almost everybody. You see, the Ubuntu developers decided to move the window buttons to the left of the titlebar (a la OSX) rather than the right (which is where we're used to seeing them).

Anyway, you can shift the buttons by runnin this simple little command via the Terminal;

Code:

gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "menu:minimize,maximize,close"

If you prefer a more graphial method, you could always just use the gconf-editor or even ubuntu tweak!

I hope this thread is useful to people (sorry if it's in the wrong area - a tuts section would be really useful)

[MasterZuFu]

This is the perfect place for this :) Good tut

[euantor]

Ah right, I'm glad. I just took a guess and placed it here ^^ Hope it's useful.

[silinox]

great tutorial, dont really like to install to many programs

[euantor]

Yup. Everything can be done via terminal if you have the right components =P For instance, I do ALL of my video conversions via terminal - same with screencasting.

[bluewaffle]

Hey man, nice tutorial! I love it! thanks

[Bman]

Thanks for this :)

It was ticking me off, the whole buttons on the left.

[V3GiX]

Wow, thanks when ill get my new computer ill install ubuntu and use that thanks!

[alirobben]

Thank you, i can now use easily ubuntu :)

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[warn]

[Rozzy]

Very nice! Thanks for sharing. :)
I'm just waiting for my CD's to arive. :P