Changing themes moves titlebar widgets from left to wrong

[2cute4u]

When I used Karmic, I only had to use gconf-editor to set the titlebar widgets to the left once, and they stayed there when I changed themes, no matter what theme I set. Since I installed Lucid, every time I change themes (other than to radiance or ambiance), my titlebar widgets are moved from the upper left to the upper right, and I have to use gconf-edit or to switch them back to the way they were.

Why is this happening and what can I do to stop it?

[plucky]

When I used Karmic, I only had to use gconf-editor to set the titlebar widgets to the left once, and they stayed there when I changed themes, no matter what theme I set. Since I installed Lucid, every time I change themes (other than to radiance or ambiance), my titlebar widgets are moved from the upper left to the upper right, and I have to use gconf-edit or to switch them back to the way they were.

Why is this happening and what can I do to stop it?

Read the sticky (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1469475) as that has an explanation of why the buttons have moved,and how to move them back.

Good Luck

[2cute4u]

Read the sticky (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1469475) as that has an explanation of why the buttons have moved,and how to move them back.

Good Luck

The sticky says the exact opposite of what i want. I don't want to move things to the old position, I want to keep things in the new position.

Ambiance, and Radiance, specify the position in the theme file , all the others don't. when you save the theme it doesn't specify order. I don't want to have to hand edit every theme,

For me Radiance is how it should be, Ambience is how it should be. Every other theme moves them to the wrong position. I want the default to stay, close, minimize maximize:menu by default, and not to change it to menu:minimize, maximize, close, when no order is specified by the theme.

[2cute4u]

I think I posted this in the wrong forum.

Modorators: please move this to Desktop environments.


Thank you

[pj_kare]

Being reasonably new to Ubuntu myself, I can't really help, though I did a bit of searching and found this page below->

http://www.ubunter.com/apps/blog/entries/show/3111112-easy-gui-window-button-switcher-for-lucid-and-karmic-users

It's not what you wanted but you may be able to use it for now. (If it works).

Otherwise, if you know how to do any programming (I don't) you might want to go to this web page http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/ and look under the heading GNOME bug 613522 towards the bottom of the page.
It suggests using a gkeyfile in the theme directory.
Another page that may help with gkeyfile: http://www.gtkbook.com/tutorial.php?page=keyfile

Sorry I can't be of more help. :(

[2cute4u]

thanks that utlility is helpful, but I shouldn't need to use something like that. I filed a bug on launchpad

[drs305]

I think I posted this in the wrong forum.

Modorators: please move this to Desktop environments.


Thank you

Moved as requested.