Position of Window Controls Reversed after 10.04 Upgrade

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sun May 23 21:25:00 UTC 2010


On 05/23/2010 04:40 AM, Tom Browder wrote:
> After a 10.04 upgrade, on one of my hosts but not the other, the
> positions of the window controls (maximize, minimize, park) have moved
> from the right side to the left!
> 
> As best as I can make them, both my hosts have always had the same
> window settings.  I have found no way to get them moved back to the
> right.
> 
> Any ideas as to what happened and how to fix it?

Paste this in a terminal:
gconftool-2 --type string --set
/apps/metacity/general/button_layout "menu:minimizemaximize,close"

(all one line).

Or you can edit via gconf-editor
Go to /apps/metacity/general/button_layout
double click on the 'Value' and enter:
menu:minimizemaximize,close

(no spaces)






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