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benneti

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Registered: 2014-05-04

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Gnome Window Buttons

Help!

I installed arch for the first time a few days ago and i like it, evrything works like i want it to,

except the window buttons in gnome are normally right just of gnome settings and for example maya-calenda are on the left, can i change this?
it is very annoying

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/346 … indows.png

Thanks for your help

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: Gnome Window Buttons

you should be able to change this via dconf-editor: in org.gnome.shell.overrides.button-layout, or alternatively if you're not using gnome shell org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences.button-layout

the value for that key for you would probably be 'close:' changing this to ':close' should move the button to right
the colon (:) separates left and right side and every button defined after it should appear in right, for example if you wanted minimize on the left, and close and maximize to right you'd change the key to 'minimize:close,maximize'

Last edited by ooo (2014-05-04 16:12:50)

benneti

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Registered: 2014-05-04

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Re: Gnome Window Buttons

thank you for your quick answer.
i checked it and it already is ":minimize,maximize,close"

ooo

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Re: Gnome Window Buttons

did you check both of the dconf-keys? I'm not completely sure which applications are using which key, although the former (org.gnome.shell.overrides.button-layout) seems to work at least for gnome-control-center when running in gnome-shell.

benneti

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Registered: 2014-05-04

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Re: Gnome Window Buttons

i checked them both and they have both the right settings value (button-layout: :minimize,maximize,close) but some application dont like it or something like that.

im totaly confused.

benneti

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Registered: 2014-05-04

Posts: 24

Re: Gnome Window Buttons

i reinstalled arch and now they are all on the right