Where are my min/max/close buttons in Gnome??

[oxf]

The title says it all!

After a fresh install of 12:10 I installed Gnome session fallback as I prefer Gnome over Unity. But I have no buttons to minimise or maximise or even close windows and have to resort to right clicking and close that way. Whats happened?

Thanks
Caitlin

[ibjsb4]

Are you running metacity or compiz?

Could try reinstalling the gnome-panel.

[oxf]

Are you running metacity or compiz?

Could try reinstalling the gnome-panel.

The default which is metacity, I think??

Anyway thanks, yes reinstalling it seems to have fixed it

[ibjsb4]

Good deal; want them on the right?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Pr...-Close_Buttons

[oxf]

Good deal; want them on the right?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Pr...-Close_Buttons

thanks... that was my next tweak.
Thanks

[oxf]

Good deal; want them on the right?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Pr...-Close_Buttons

This is really weird!
This command used to work now it doesn't. Despite me tryimg over and over the buttons remain stuck on the left! whats going on?...........................

[stinkeye]

Now in dconf.
You can use dconf-editor

or

Move buttons to right using Terminal...

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout :minimize,maximize,close

[pierceTN]

One way you can do this is by installing the gnome tweak tool.

Install by putting this in terminal and pressing enter:

sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool


Open it up, then go to the "shell" tab and enable the minimize or maximize button.





-Pierce

[oxf]

Now in dconf.
You can use dconf-editor

or

Move buttons to right using Terminal...

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout :minimize,maximize,close

Thanks that worked!
The other command in the link used to work but maybe something changed in Quantal? Anyway its sorted

@pierceTN: Yes I have tweak tools installed didn't realise you could do it from there also, thanks.