buttons to left hand side?

[mudog]

how can i set my buttons to the top left like macs and I could do through gconf-editor in metacity in the past?

[bimsebasse]

If you use Mint 12 MGSE, see this thread

[mudog]

I appreciate the help and link but I am totally new to mint 12 I have a full install and regular booting. as posted in 2 other threads - I am totally confused as to the heck the mate and mgse are in what i am seeing and would like to see and use etc....

so I guess i cannot follow your button help with what I have and run and would like to run once I figure out more of what I see and like and see that I do not like and which one is which re: mate and mgse or whatever.

i could bet I am not the only one either that is lost or confused.

[bimsebasse]

MATE looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNEB-fXBhoc

MGSE (Mint 12 with Gnome default login session) looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yE3Z46QquU

[mudog]

ok when i ran it in live mode the dock on the left of msge was always on the desktop and i like that but upon install it is not there it can only be brought up by the cursor at top left. can I keep the msge dock on the left whatever it is called - the favorites to show all of the time?

thank you for your help.

[bimsebasse]

No - you can't work in the overview, it's meant as just an overview. You can add a dock to do what you want, though, I use Avant Window Navigator (installable from Software Manager). The favourites are also shown in the menu that pops up when you click the menu button.

[mudog]

so if i use the default 12 lisa can i still change the buttons to the left?

do you like awn better than cairo dock? I had many issues years ago with awn - did it get better? thank you so much for all of your help!

[mudog]

Ok buttons seemed to work and are now on the left - thank you so very much for your help!