As stated on a duplicate bug report, if you are not happy with this design decision there is an easy workaround to revert this behaviour: gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string ":minimize,maximize,close"
As stated on a duplicate bug report, if you are not happy with this design decision there is an easy workaround to revert this behaviour: general/ button_ layout --type string ":minimize, maximize, close"
gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/