{"id":55,"date":"2010-03-10T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2021-01-14T08:50:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T22:50:21","slug":"howto-swap-the-window-gadgets-back-to-the-right-side-of-the-window-in-ubuntu-lucid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/10\/howto-swap-the-window-gadgets-back-to-the-right-side-of-the-window-in-ubuntu-lucid\/","title":{"rendered":"HowTo: Swap the window gadgets back to the right side of the window in Ubuntu Lucid."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The release of Ubuntu\u2019s brand new look in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha 3 brought mixed reactions, but probably none more so than the decision to move the window minimise, maximise and close gadgets from their traditional placement on the upper-right corner of the window to the upper-left side ala Apple Mac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150320084922if_\/http:\/\/www.serenux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/UbuntuLucidWindowGadgets1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Gadgets on the left side<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many people, myself included, do not like this. To fix it and make it look like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150320084928if_\/http:\/\/www.serenux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/UbuntuLucidWindowGadgets2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Gadgets on the right side<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150317145555\/http:\/\/www.serenux.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/UbuntuLucidWindowGadgets2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150317145555im_\/http:\/\/www.serenux.com\/wp-content\/themes\/grey-opaque\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-694\" title=\"Improving the placement of window gadgets in Ubuntu Lucid\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026is very easy to do. Read on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simply open up a terminal and type in the following at the $ prompt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">$ gconftool -s \/apps\/metacity\/general\/button_layout -t string \":maximize,minimize,close\"<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Viola! Instant fix! But how does it work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gnome is highly customisable. One of its configuration options tells Metacity where and in what order to render elements on a window. In this case, the string \u201c:maximize,minimize,close\u201d means to render the \u201cmaximise\u201d, \u201cminimise\u201d and \u201cclose\u201d gadgets in that order, and the colon at the start means to render them on the right side of the window. If you change the colon to be on the far right, your window gadgets will appear on the left of the window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t like how the Ubuntu team have also changed the maximise and minimise button order around? Be a rebel! Change it back by replacing the configuration string above with \u201c:minimize,maximize,close\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Play around with it and enjoy.&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150317145555im_\/http:\/\/www.serenux.com\/wp-content\/themes\/grey-opaque\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" alt=\"Smilie: :)\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The release of Ubuntu\u2019s brand new look in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha 3 brought mixed reactions, but probably none more so than the decision to move the window minimise, maximise and close gadgets from their traditional placement on the upper-right corner of the window to the upper-left side ala Apple Mac. Many people, myself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.serenux.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}