HOW TO: Change Ubuntu 10.04 WM buttons to 9.10 placement/order

[MichaelSwengel]

Well, Microsoft and Apple disagree with you. They make a LOT of money selling systems that can't do what you want.

I don't give a crud what MS and Apple think!

Linux is meant to be customizable by the user. A key reason users switch to Linux is to get away from the restrictions of MS and Apple.

[pastalavista]

Linux is meant to be customizable by the user.

It is customizable via command-line. Somebody will soon add an app to gnome that will do it, because it isn't that difficult. Make your suggestion to Canonical or Gnome. You may get it in an upcoming release or even an update (since Lucid is an LTS release). That would likely never happen in commercial OS's.

[MichaelSwengel]

It is customizable via command-line. Somebody will soon add an app to gnome that will do it, because it isn't that difficult. Make your suggestion to Canonical or Gnome. You may get it in an upcoming release or even an update (since Lucid is an LTS release). That would likely never happen in commercial OS's.

And this is the fundamental problem with which Linux has been plagued.

If it is to be adopted by the masses, the user needs a graphical means for customization built in to the OS itself.

This suggestion has already been made to Canonical. This is not a GNOME issue. It's an Ubuntu configuration issue.

THIS thread is merely a How-to for those who want to move the buttons.

If you disagree with the premise thereof, why are you on this thread?

[pastalavista]

And this is the fundamental problem with which Linux has been plagued.

If it is to be adopted by the masses, the user needs a graphical means for customization built in to the OS itself.

This suggestion has already been made to Canonical. This is not a GNOME issue. It's an Ubuntu configuration issue.

THIS thread is merely a How-to for those who want to move the buttons.

If you disagree with the premise thereof, why are you on this thread?

I just wanted to tell you about Ubuntu Tweak. So you wouldn't be so disillusioned about Ubuntu. and...

I am a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars
I have a right to be here

[pastalavista]

PS... besides the command line method described above, you can do the same thing in gconf-editor, but you still have to edit some text want to know how?

[MichaelSwengel]

I just wanted to tell you about Ubuntu Tweak. So you wouldn't be so disillusioned about Ubuntu. and...

I am a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars
I have a right to be here

I don't think anyone here is disillusioned with Ubuntu...

...just a little frustrated that the art team pulled this change in a late alpha just before the UI freeze. Ubuntu Tweak doesn't change their decision.

No one is questioning anyone's right to be here.

[MichaelSwengel]

PS... besides the command line method described above, you can do the same thing in gconf-editor, but you still have to edit some text want to know how?

It's really more of a pain to go that route than to paste in a line of code unfortunately. (If it's the way I'm thinking, that is.)

[pastalavista]

It's really more of a pain to go that route than to paste in a line of code unfortunately. (If it's the way I'm thinking, that is.)

The gconf-editor method is easier for me to remember. Do you have it in your Applications menu. It can be added (if it isn't there already) in Applications/System Tools/Configuration Editor. Or just run with Alt-F2 'gconf-editor'.

Open Apps/Metacity/General and edit the button_layout key. The colon is the middle of the toolbar so just put the window manage entries to the right of the colon and menu to the left of it and you can arrange the buttons in any order you want... just by moving the text in relation to the colon.

[MichaelSwengel]

The gconf-editor method is easier for me to remember. Do you have it in your Applications menu. It can be added (if it isn't there already) in Applications/System Tools/Configuration Editor. Or just run with Alt-F2 'gconf-editor'.

Open Apps/Metacity/General and edit the button_layout key. The colon is the middle of the toolbar so just put the window manage entries to the right of the colon and menu to the left of it and you can arrange the buttons in any order you want... just by moving the text in relation to the colon.

Yeah, that's the way I was thinking.

It's really easier to just paste a line into Terminal. (Good thinking though)

[pastalavista]

Yeah, that's the way I was thinking.

It's really easier to just paste a line into Terminal. (Good thinking though)

yeah.. it is easier to paste a line if you have it handy to copy, but if you don't and don't want to search for it, AND you aren't well versed in CLI enough to remember it all (like me), gconf-editor is the way to go.