Window button location

Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com
Sun Oct 16 14:05:17 UTC 2011


On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2011/10/16 Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com>:
> > I've finally realized I'll never be at peace with buttons in the upper
> left,
>
> It's amazing how different people are. I love having them on the left
> side. When I close several windows of different sizes, I don't need to
> move the mouse very much to reach the close buttons of all the open
> windows.
>
> In this case, it's not so much *people* being different as *environments*
being different.  I have four systems at home, and all the rest have the
controls in the upper right.  It might have been better to have said that
I'll never be at peace with inconsistent placement, and changing one system
seems better than changing three.

In any event, the first responder got me on the right track with metacity,
which I had never fooled with before.  There's now a "SOLVED" thread.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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