Comments on: Change Metacity button location in Ubuntu

By: Krank, for when Ubuntu’s novelty wears off « Motho ke motho ka botho

Krank, for when Ubuntu’s novelty wears off « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:36:59 +0000

[...] probably absorbed with Ubuntu 10.04 right now, and that’s a good thing. When you get tired of messing with the location of the buttons, you can check out Krank, which is a rather unusual [...]

By: Bjarke

Bjarke — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 06:40:53 +0000

Yes !
Instead of changing the line in gconf. Just delete it.
And, voila, the buttons are gone.
Then use keybindings to assign the tasks to buttons on your keyboard.
It makes things a whole lot easier and we can start discussing changes that matters.

By: Install Neverwinter Nights in Ubuntu « Motho ke motho ka botho

Install Neverwinter Nights in Ubuntu « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:42:26 +0000

[...] P.S.: Yes, the buttons are on the right. [...]

By: Change Metacity button location in Ubuntu | Ubuntu-News - Your one stop for news about Ubuntu

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:37:38 +0000

[...] Ordinarily I wouldn’t bother trying to help out Gnome users because Gnome itself is deliberately hamstrung and at the same time grotesquely overweight, but this is something so simple and so straightforward as to make all the More here [...]

By: mulenmar

mulenmar — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:23:05 +0000

The whole interface looks Mac-ified. And I’m not sure I like it.

Well, I guess I’ll find out in April.

Hope someone figures out a way to get the IEGD drivers up and running by then . . .

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:19:07 +0000

On top of that, wouldn’t it be easier to manage windows with a keyboard shortcut? It would save a lot of travel with the mouse cursor and a lot of time.

By: steve

steve — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:37:47 +0000

Exactly. Desktop environments are heading the way of the dinosaur. The GNOME and KDE teams are just making a complete mess of what they have created and alienating users in the process. I cannot for the life of me fathom why the developers of these DEs feel the need to modify their product and alienate those who have taken it onboard. I was a KDE 3.x fan but KDE4 is just rubbish. GNOME seems to be heading the same way. Thanks to the powers that be that I can run openbox + xfce4-panel to achieve everything I need.

I agree totally with what William said. Take ownership of your computer and you will never have to deal with what these software developers regard as ‘advancement’ ever again. I for one got sick of dealing with what other devs thought I should have to cope with, but never again.

By: William

William — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:36:33 +0000

Total agreement. This is linux people, learn to customize your machine and make it your own.

By: primo

primo — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:31:54 +0000

The problem is the fact that this was changed in the first place.

Not only does it make no sense to change it, but it also completely destroy compatibility with other themes.

I will be quite surprised if they do not change it back in the final release.