I’m not an OSX person and personally prefer my minimise, maximise and close buttons to be in that order on the right, which they are not as default on the new Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) so here’s how you can swap them back to their rightful place (pun intended).
This can be done either of two ways:
Use the following one line command to edit gconf (for more info type man gconftool):
gconftool -s /apps/met>gconftool -s /apps/met>gconftool -s /apps/metacity/general/button_layout -t string menu:minimize,maximize,close
OR
Using gconf-editor (the GUI version):
- In terminal type: gconf-editor
- Navigate to /apps/metacity/general
- Change button_layout to: menu:minimize,maximize,close
- Hit enter and you are done.