Ubuntu wants to be more user-friendly than other Linux`es. It is the fact. Each new Ubuntu release always introduces a set of features which make user's life easy. But not all these features are cool. Is the fact too.
Upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 also introduces a Mac-like approach when window-control buttons (to minimize, to maximize and to close a window) are placed on the top-left side of the window, not on the top-right. Not everyone will definitely like it. Or not all GNOME (Metacity, if be more specific) themes will be look OK in this case. Anyway there should be a way to affect on window's button layout in Ubuntu.
So how to return it back?
(the screenshot from http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-10-04-Drops-the-Human-Theme-for-a-Fresh-New-Look-136537.shtml)
The solution is simple, but not so obvious (as usual :)). After execution of the following command in a terminal window
gconftool-2 --set "/apps/metacity/general/button_layout" --type string ":minimize,maximize,close"
all buttons responsible for minimization, maximization and closing will be shown on the right side of the windows as it was before in the previous versions of Ubuntu. It is also a fact :).
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