windows decoration buttons on the right side in raring

[Hans Ginzel]

After upgrading to 13.04, window decoration buttons are on the rigth side of the titlebar even thought the dconf-editor > org > gnome > desktop > wm > preferences > "button_layout is "close,minimize,maximize:".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: unity 6.12.0daily13.03.01-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-9.18-generic 3.8.1
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-9-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
Date: Mon Mar 4 16:31:37 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-02-14 (18 days ago)

[Daniel Harvison (sirbubbles01-x)]

If you use dconf-editor, go to org/gnome/desktop/wm/preferences, you can go to button-layout, and change the text there to "close,minimize,maximize:" being sure that the semi-colon is at the end of that. Hit enter and buttons should be as they were. Odd that this just happened, I see no reason why it would, given that maximised apps still show buttons in the top left of the panel.

[Richard Driscoll (rjdriscoll)]

The behaviour of dconf-editor in this situation is rather odd. The change to button-layout only seems to have the desired effect if it is input without quotes, neither single nor double. This is odd because the other strings in org/gnome/desktop/wm/preferences have single quotes.

On my system if the button-layout string is input with qoutes the effect seems to the same as ":minimize,maximise" even though the string is in fact "menu:minimize,maximise,close."

If in doubt use gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout '<string>'

which seems reliable.

By the way I am using gnome-session- fallback (classic) mode.

[Richard Driscoll (rjdriscoll)]

Typos by myself in above post. For minimise read minimize, for maximise read maximize. The config tool does not understand the spelling with s, only with z.

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

Ubuntu 13.04 has reached end of life and is no longer supported. Can you still reproduce this problem on 14.04 or 14.10?

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