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GNOME – How to move window buttons

Some people prefer their min,max,close window buttons to be on the left - mac style. Somehow I managed it then forgot how I did it so when I finally found how to do it AGAIN!, I thought I'd share it. GNOME calls this "metacity button layout". From a terminal window, type gconf-editor. Now navigate to apps/metacity/general and change the button_layout value as required. The colon (:) indicates the left-side and right-side divider. So, Windows style would be menu:minimize,maximize,close and Mac style would be close,minimize,maximize:menu.