Window Icons on wrong side.

[Tom H]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Larry Shields <larryesu at charter.net> wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Larry Shields <larryesu at charter.net> wrote:
>>> I forgot to mention that I am running Karmic, and the commands do not
>>> work for it to switch from the left too the right...
>>
>> The buttons are already on the right in Karmic! Anyway, the command
>> gconftool-2 -s /apps/metacity/general/button_layout -t string <layout>
>> is to set the button layout where within <layout>
>> "minimize" is the minimize button, etc
>> and the position of ":" determines whether these buttons are placed
>> right or left. So
>> "close,minimize,maximize:"
>> is the new Lucid default,
>> "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
>> is the pre-Lucid default,
>> and, if you do not want the "menu" button, you can set the layout to
>> ":minimize,maximize,close"
>
> /*Tom I bet to differ on that I am running Karmic, and the buttons are
> on the left, maybe this happened during an update, that I can not be
> sure, but mine are on the left as I said...

Very surprising. I thought that the button placement change was
limited to Lucid.