Move your maximize, minimize, and close buttons to the left side of the window
This tip is old hat for the Linux pros out there, but you can move your metacity buttons to the left side of the window (Mac style) very easily. I will show you how to do this in GNOME.
The first step is to open gconf-editor. You can do this by typing gconf-editor into a terminal. Once gconf-editor is open, go to Apps >> Metacity >> general. In the general section select button_layout. This is shown below:
In the button_layout section you need to reorder your buttons. The colon sepeparates what is on the left and right side of the window. So to change the buttons from the right side of the screen to the left type close,maximize,minimize:menu. In fact, I find the maximize and menu buttons wasteful so I only use close,minimize.
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Never having been a mac user, it may be that I don’t know what I’m missing. Then again, maybe it’s a simple matter of my being Left-Handicapped. At any rate, I’m happy with my buttons living on the right side of the screen.
However, I am well past the age of 50 and the SIZE of those tiny stinking buttons IS a problem.
How can I either enlarge the buttons or both, the buttons and the bar?? Knowing that would be a really big help.
GoBloggit on 06 Jan 2007 at 11:28 pm
Move your maximize minimize and close buttons to the left side …
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