Is there a way to change the location of the minimize/maximizeWindows in Lucid?

[Tom H]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Tony Pursell
<ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 04:53 +1200, Tortise wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tom H" <tomh0665 at gmail.com>
>> To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 3:41 AM
>> Subject: Re: Is there a way to change the location of the minimize/maximizeWindows in Lucid?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Maxime Alarie <malarie at processia.com> wrote:
>> > I dont like having them on the left side of the windows.. Im used to
>> > close my windows on the top-right corner…
>>
>> >sudo gconftool-2 --set --type=string ":minimize,maximize,close"
>> /apps/metacity/general/button_layout
>>
>> Kewl.  What about setting these to both sides??   (Top left AND top right)
>>
>
> The colon (:) determines which side the controls go, so I tried
> "minimize,maximize,close:minimize,maximize,close" and
> "minimize,maximize,close::minimize,maximize,close"
> but neither worked.

WAG: it must mean that metacity isn't flexible enough to handle more
than one of the same...