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    move buttons to top right

    HI Newbie here. When any page pen like Firefox, Thunderbird, Libre Office, etc. the minimize, maximize, and close buttons are at the top left. Can I get them to be at the top right? Thanks.

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    Re: move buttons to top right

    Good news: Yes
    Bad news: Almost yes.

    The easiest way to move the buttons the right is to use Ubuntu Tweak, download it and install

    Now go to Tweak -> Window Manager Settings -> Window Titlebar Button Layout -> Place

    From there you can tick "Right" and the buttons will instantly move to the right.

    Mess around with Ubuntu Tweak as it can do some nifty tweaks.

    You might be wondering why I said "bad news" and "almost yes", well, when you maximize the window, the buttons will be on the left and as far as I know, there is no way to move them from there.
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    Re: move buttons to top right

    You have to edit the configuration file for your window manager. This is actually pretty easy. There's a good guide to help you out HERE. Hope that helps.

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    Re: move buttons to top right

    the box popped up but no run command was there so I can't follow the rest of the instructions sorry any other ideas?

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    Re: move buttons to top right

    Follow this , dont worry about the Dist version . it works fine .

    http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535...-ubuntu-10.04/
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    Re: move buttons to top right

    Quote Originally Posted by Lisiano View Post
    Good news: Yes
    Bad news: Almost yes.

    The easiest way to move the buttons the right is to use Ubuntu Tweak, download it and install

    Now go to Tweak -> Window Manager Settings -> Window Titlebar Button Layout -> Place

    From there you can tick "Right" and the buttons will instantly move to the right.

    Mess around with Ubuntu Tweak as it can do some nifty tweaks.

    You might be wondering why I said "bad news" and "almost yes", well, when you maximize the window, the buttons will be on the left and as far as I know, there is no way to move them from there.
    did this and buttons in the tweak box went to the right but not anywhere elsee like in firefox, thunderbird and other apps as well. They are still on the left.

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    Re: move buttons to top right

    Quote Originally Posted by raja.genupula View Post
    Follow this , dont worry about the Dist version . it works fine .

    http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535...-ubuntu-10.04/

    Pressing alt + F2 does not bring up the run application box as shown on the page above. can't do anything further. any other ideas?

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    Re: move buttons to top right

    Quote Originally Posted by benjie1 View Post
    Pressing alt + F2 does not bring up the run application box as shown on the page above. can't do anything further. any other ideas?
    Do this one by one
    *open software center and type gconf editor , it will give you a out list in that select "configuration editor " and install it .

    *After installing that one go to Unity dash and in the launcher bar type as gconf it will give you what you have installed from the software center .then open it .

    And follow the instructions which are given at the link of my above post .

    All the best , if anything comes up , let us know .
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    Thumbs up How to Move Buttons to Top Right [in title bar: min, max and close] EASY FIX

    Posting here because this thread comes up high in the search rank.

    There is no need to install new packages or struggle through howto pages.

    For 12.04, simply paste the following into a terminal.:
    Code:
    gconftool -s /apps/metacity/general/button_layout -t string menu:minimize,spacer,maximize,spacer,close
    The above ("menu:minimize,spacer,maximize,spacer,close") adds a space between buttons to make it harder to accidentally hit the wrong one. Just remove the two "spacer," items if you prefer your buttons crammed tightly together, which is the default.

    EDIT:
    Apparently gconf is deprecated from 12.10 Quantal onward. The schema to control button placement, however, remains valid: org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout. So while the above works for 12.04 and earlier, the following works for current ( and hopefully future) releases:
    Code:
    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout menu:minimize,spacer,maximize,spacer,close
    Of course, there's easier access to many more settings using dconf-editor (sudo apt-get install dconf-tools); this just puts the window controls back where they belong.
    </EDIT>

    As Lisiano pointed out, button arrangement reverts to the default when windows are maximized. (No problem for me since I hardly ever maximize.) Hopefully this will be fixed in future releases.

    Anyways, found this after much searching and checking. Wanted to save others the trouble.
    Last edited by u2nTu; October 26th, 2012 at 07:48 PM. Reason: Add info for 12.10

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