Ubuntu 10.04 – changing the order of the maximise/minimise/close buttons

Well, I’ve finally started the process of migrating my computers to Ubuntu 10.04. This means several rounds of fixing things. Might as well post it all here as I’ll be doing this at least three more times. >+:Sigh:+< One of the things I wanted to do was put the close button on the right of the maximise and minimise buttons, as they were situated in previous versions of Ubuntu. Note: follow the instructions in the above post to move the buttons to the right hand side of the window and change the order of the buttons so that the close button is on the right of the maximise/minimise buttons. Follow the instructions below to leave the buttons on the left-hand side of the window but to put the close button to the right of the other two.

This site had instructions for changing the order of the buttons:

• Open the configuration editor (press Alt+F2 and type gconf-editor)
• In the left-hand tree, find app -> metacity -> general and double-click on the field called button_layout.
• Change the value field to menu:minimize,maximize,close to move the close button to the right of the minimise and maximise buttons.

Thank you, Codigo Manso!