Changing the Metacity button order
By Pratik Shivarkar | Labels: Applications, Gnome, Linux, Theme, Window ManagerDo you ever wish that title bar buttons should be in another order? Mac OS users definitely prefer reverse order buttons over standard order buttons.
Here is a way to change the Title bar button order…
Your default Metacity title bar looks like this…![]()
Simply execute following command..
gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "close,maximize,minimize:menu"
Now you will have a Mac a like button order…
You can also try something else like…
gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "menu,maximize:close,minimize"
In this sequence “ : ” serves as a separator between right hand side and left hand side…
If you want to switch back to standard layout, “menu:minimize,maximize,close” is the default layout..
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