{"id":8788,"date":"2010-10-01T09:43:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T09:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/10\/01\/making-the-window-controls-go\/"},"modified":"2010-10-01T09:43:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T09:43:40","slug":"making-the-window-controls-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/01\/making-the-window-controls-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the window controls go back where they belong in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest version of Ubuntu, the development community decided that they needed to look more like a Mac, so they randomly decided to move the window controls (to close, maximize, minimize etc.) a window, to the left (incorrect) side of the window rather than the right (correct) side of the window.<\/p>\n<p>In order to fix this &#8220;feature&#8221; here&#8217;s what you do.<\/p>\n<p>Run gconf-editor (enter that phrase into a terminal).  Find apps, then metacity, then general, then within that find &#8220;button_layout&#8221;.  Double click on that.<\/p>\n<p>It will say &#8220;close,minimize,maximize:menu&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Change that to &#8220;menu:minimize,maximize,close&#8221; and click OK.  Instantly, you will be fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest version of Ubuntu, the development community decided that they needed to look more like a Mac, so they randomly decided to move the window controls (to close, maximize, minimize etc.) a window, to the left (incorrect) side of the window rather than the right (correct) side of the window. In order to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/01\/making-the-window-controls-go\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making the window controls go back where they belong in Ubuntu<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2hK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}