switching close/enlarge buttons to the left side ofwindow

[blacklinux]

I recently saw someweher and cannot find How to switch the buttons of enlarge and reduce and close on all of the windows to the left like OS X as opposed to the right.

since i work all macs and the 1 linux new laptop I'd love to be able to sitch them to keep them more consistent for me.

does any one know is this will work in Ubuntu too?

can anyone please help me out and please be clear- I am absolutely new to linux and Know zero command line so be clean and explicit please.


thank you.

[blacklinux]

any clues please? I did a search and my question keeps coming up - nothing else. I do remember seeing a post here last week - Maybe Clem asnwered it. I looked but I cannot find it.

[|_NiGhTmArE_|]

if you use metacity it's very simple
open gconf-editor then go to apps->metacity->general
now just edit button_layout

[blacklinux]

I apologize, I am new to linux. I was told that if you run ubuntu and in this case Mint that you are using metacity. Is that correct? or do i have to load this somehow? I am confused - sorry.

[|_NiGhTmArE_|]

Metacity is the standard window manager of gnome... so if you don't have installed another window manager do the procedure on the previous post

to open gconf you may open a terminal and then do this:

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gconf-editor

if you have other qestions we are here

[blacklinux]

Ok thank you.

just a follow up - so if I install another 'engine' gtk? or whatever else there is....not sure at the moment what the others ar called....then you cannot just use anything from the category of each engine or extension that you have loaded but have to define and pick which engine is in use everythime? I am sorry for the confuson....

[|_NiGhTmArE_|]

Ok thank you.

just a follow up - so if I install another 'engine' gtk? or whatever else there is....not sure at the moment what the others ar called....then you cannot just use anything from the category of each engine or extension that you have loaded but have to define and pick which engine is in use everythime? I am sorry for the confuson....

I don't understand what are you trying to say
don't make confusion between window manager and the toolkit used for creating gui (such as GTK+, Qt, ecc...)
metacity is a window manager based on gtk+ 2