Following the theme changes in Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) development version, the most recent (0.1.5.4) update you will notice that the “window management” buttons have moved over to the top left, this is a design choice with the most recent changelog for that package sporting “correctly set the wm buttons on the left corner”:
The development version is a wonderful area to try new concepts, and this is something that is being tested. I tried to use this for nearly an hour and found that my habit was too strong, and it’s not one that I currently wish to change. I decided to revert it to something i’m used to (the far right), I’m not aware of an easy (graphical) method to do this, which means that we need to pull out some gconf -foo (hurray)!
Lets open gconf via holding ALT+F2 and typing “gconf-editor“. This will open the application and allow changes to be made. I should warn that fiddling with gconf, and making errors could cause bad things to happen.
In this screenshot I have navigated to “/apps/metacity/general/” and double clicked the “button_layout” option. On the end of the line (highlighted) there is a “:”. This colon needs to be moved to the beginning of the line, so it reads - ”:maximize,minimize,close” rather than “maximize,minimize,close:” which it currently reads.
When you press OK, the buttons will automagically move over to the side we are all accustomed to. However, if this design decision isn’t reverted then you will need to fix this on the rare occasion that the theme is updated.
