Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Move Chrome Window Buttons in Ubuntu

I love Cinnamon. The desktop environment (well, ok, the spice too.) But one of the things that has bugged me is that in almost all windows I can move the window controls (max, min, close) to either side I want. That is, all except for Chrome. Turns out, this is a common problem because Chrome draws its own windows controls based on some system settings. Here's how to turn things around:

To set the controls to the right side:
gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string ":minimize,maximize,close"

To set them to the left:

gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string "minimize,maximize,close:"

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