Saturday 6 March 2010

Tweaking the Gnome Window Button Layout

Call me old fashioned, but I kind of like my Gnome Window buttons to be on the right hand side of a Window, rather than on the left. Fortunately this can be easily configured using gconf-editor. Run gconf-editor and select: apps->metacity->general and then select the button_layout configuration setting and change it to:

:minimize,maximize,close

The leading colon sets the button icons on the right of a window and a trailing colon sets the button icons on the left of a window. Easy!



If you don't want to run the GUI tool, use the following rune:

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

  1. Anonymous7 March 2010 at 02:18

    I hate that something like this, that so many people probably want, can only be changed in the gnome registry. I'm fed up with registries, that's one thing that I love about linux: all configuration is simple text files. Now all these new settings are only accessibly via this awful method. I feel like I'm running windows again having to root around in the registry just to change useful settings.

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    1. Anonymous25 January 2012 at 21:41

      If you don't want to bother with the GUI, then just change the following text file:

      /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/index.theme

      and make the change described above to the following line:
      button_layout=minimize,maximize,close:

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