Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Ubuntu 10.04, Switching the Minimise, Maximise and Close buttons from left to right of your windows.


So you're using Ubuntu and the Close, Minimise and Maximise button is on the left top of all windows just like the Apple Mac. You wish it could be more like Windows?  Just do these steps...

Press Alt+F2

In the window type in “gconf-editor” and press enter.


Click on edit and find and type in 'close' and search also in key values.


This is what it'll find:



At the bottom select the “/apps/metacity/general/button_layout” key and in the middle look for “button layout”. Where it says “close, minimise, maximise:” indicates your buttons are on the left of the ':' (or window). If you place “:minimise, maximise, close” in the key the buttons will be re-arranged and on the right of the ':' (or window). The different versions of Ubuntu may have the key in different places so using the 'find' will always work.

Easy huh?





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