Move your metacity buttons in GNOME
You can move your metacity buttons to the left side of the window (Mac style) very easily. I will show you how to do this in GNOME. The first step is to open gconf-editor. You can do this by typing gconf-editor into a terminal. Once gconf-editor is open, go to Apps >> Metacity >> general. In the general section select button_layout. This is shown below:
In the button_layout section you need to reorder your buttons. The colon sepeparates what is on the left and right side of the window. So to change the buttons from the right side of the screen to the left type close,maximize,minimize:menu. In fact, I find the maximize and menu buttons wasteful so I only use close,minimize.
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3 opinions for Move your metacity buttons in GNOME
Vlad
Sep 16, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Thanks a lot!
That was really helpful…
Dimas
Jan 18, 2008 at 5:02 am
Cool. Very usefull. Had looking for it since months.
Maarten
Aug 25, 2008 at 12:00 pm
yup that was really helpful, thx!!
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