Interesting read about the future of Ubuntu

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 01:19 -0500, Doug wrote:
> I found that MINT had undone a bunch of the craziness that Ubuntu uses,
> like putting the window controls on the wrong side.

What's your list of crazinesses?

The window controls are fixable in 30 seconds (literally).

- run gconf-editor
- drill down to apps->metacity->general
- click on the "button_layout" item
- click on the "button_layout" value to start editing it
- move the colon to the left-hand end of the value
- optionally rearrange the other bits (they are self-explanatory)
- close gconf-editor

OR just do this (all on one line, no need for sudo):

   gconftool-2  --type=string --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout ":minimize,maximize,close"

Regards, K.

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