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Following the theme changes in Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) development version, the most recent (0.1.5.4) update you will notice that the “window management” buttons have moved over to the top left, this is a design choice with the most recent changelog for that package sporting “correctly set the wm buttons on the left corner”:

The development version is a wonderful area to try new concepts, and this is something that is being tested. I tried to use this for nearly an hour and found that my habit was too strong, and it’s not one that I currently wish to change. I decided to revert it to something i’m used to (the far right), I’m not aware of an easy (graphical) method to do this, which means that we need to pull out some gconf -foo (hurray)!

Lets open gconf via holding ALT+F2 and typing “gconf-editor“. This will open the application and allow changes to be made. I should warn that fiddling with gconf, and making errors could cause bad things to happen.

In this screenshot I have navigated to “/apps/metacity/general/” and double clicked the “button_layout” option. On the end of the line (highlighted) there is a “:”. This colon needs to be moved to the beginning of the line, so it reads - ”:minimize,maximize,close” rather than “maximize,minimize,close:” which it currently reads.

When you press OK, the buttons will automagically move over to the side we are all accustomed to. However, if this design decision isn’t reverted then you will need to fix this on the rare occasion that the theme is updated.

Ugh. They are making it too Mac Like. I like my window buttons on the Right. Just like on Windows Thanks for the guide (Downloading Alpha 3 now just to give it a whirl)

Quick sorta off-topic question - Will I be able to get the update to try this on the Live CD. Or do I have to install via VM?

I'd think you would have to install it. I'm kind of stayin away from the alphas, none of them have been quite right in the head. Buggy as hell.

I installed ubuntu on one of my PC's. think it was the latest one out, 9.10? Am using it for XBMC

Sweet bro! Glad to hear it. There is an XBMC distro ya know. I think it's gone now. It makes your pc into an XBMC. Dunno if you can use it for the net though. Just think it makes it a PURE XBMC. LMAO!

Wanna Point out. This tip works great! Also I know found out it can mess up the order. So I can have the close button + menu button (Little dot with menu options like in 9.10) on the left and the minimize and maximize on the right I guess most can do this since it's likely now the buttons won't move back. But it's easy to do

1. Press Alt + F2 and type in gconf-editor
2. Browse to apps–>metacity–>general
3. Open the button_layout field and replace the existing text with menu:minimize,maximize,close

Found this very helpful

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Umm Krypto, I already posted this quite awhile ago:
http://thewindows7site.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17596

Well, now we have 2 threads about this:
http://thewindows7site.com/forum/thr...880#post150880

Meh!

Threads merged.