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Is anyone aware if the left-justified max/min/close buttons are still left-justified, or if that was corrected? There was an article about a month ago discussing this (and its inherent silliness) but I'm not sure if it still exists as such.

Looking at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Brand seems to indicate that it still is, and perhaps as trivial as this may seem, it is discouraging me from upgrading.

(edit) I haven't yet had a chance to download a live CD of a release candidate.

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Go to System->Preferences->Appearance, there are default installed themes with the buttons in the upper right. It's a 5 second fix.

[edit] I like the new positions, just saying that you can switch it back trivially.

Ah, thanks tons to you as well for the info. That eases my slightly-neurotic worry a lot :)

Mhh, i just tried that. Although the thumbnails show the controls on the right side, i didn't get it to work. Regardless of the theme selected the controls remains on the left side :(

Most of them don't, but Clearlooks works.

Luckily, this is easy to fix, just:

run gconf-editor then,

Change apps -> metacity -> general -> button_layout to ':minimize,maximize,close' without quotes

If you turn visual effects on/off, you're back to the original settings though.

Woah, thanks! This is probably the last thing that i found disturbing in the new release, great!

They are still left-justified, but they fixed the horrible padding they had in one of the beta releases.

I'm basically used to them, but kind of annoying that my primary app in Ubuntu (Chrome) has them on the right side, as it creates inconsistency. Yes, I realize I can use the native title bar with Chrome but then it's not as pretty ;-)

The info is appreciated. Is there any means by which to set it back to "normal", so to speak, using themes or other customization features?

Some of the other themes in System -> Preferences -> Appearance have the buttons on the right side. For example, select "Clearlooks" as your theme and the buttons will go to the right. Ambiance, Dust, and Radiance have the buttons on the left. New Wave, Clearlooks, Dust Sand, and the high-contrast options are on the right.

This was a change from earlier betas where changing the theme would not change the location of the controls (and, for me, is much appreciated even if I know how to use gconf-editor).

I don't know what it's like on 'standard' Ubuntu (i.e., Gnome) but I found the built in Chrome title bar to be really buggy in KDE. It would snap around and 'stick' to my cursor when resizing or moving, so I had to go with the system title bar.

You can download a Chrome extension/theme to match the Ubuntu one (it's called Ambiance if I recall) and have Chrome use the system window decoration (right click on a free spot in the tabs area). This way Chrome integrates perfectly.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/elnmibmpefhmfgph...

I hop between Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows all the time, so little annoyances like this just fade into the background for me. I can appreciate how this would annoy somebody, though.

They are, but you can move them back very easily with gconf-editor. Change /apps/metacity/general/button_layout to "menu:minimize,maximize,close" as described here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535/move-window-buttons-bac...

Fix:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535/move-window-buttons-bac...

gconftool -s /apps/metacity/general/button_layout -t string "menu:minimize,maximize,close"

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