Window Icons on wrong side.

[sdavmor]

On 04/09/2010 04:41 PM, Tom H wrote:
> 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.

I guess it's a function of "theme" choice. I have several Karmic
themes brought forward and they work as expected. Then there are
several, both Karmic and Lucid, that provide the option of where the
buttons are placed L/R. Personally I like 'em where they were, but
that could just be because that's where they've been for donkey's
years. I suppose in time I'll adjust if buttons on the left becomes
a standard. Not one I'd have voted for however, had I been asked...
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