Posts Tagged ‘right’
Rearrange button order and position of window menu buttons in Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu, other than most distributions as well as MS Windows, decided to move its window menu buttons to the left side of the top window panel. This brings along many accustomization problems for people who are used to rush their mouses to the top right instinctively.
If you want to, you can revert this change with the help of gconf-editor.
Open it by entering gconf into Dash or
gconf-editor
into a terminal. Browse the left pane for /apps/metacity/general and look for the value of button_layout which should be close,minimize,maximize: . This value defines where the buttons are positioned and in which order – the commands stand for the appropriate button whereas the colon determines on which side they will be. You can also add a menu button by including menu.
To move the buttons to the right and adjust their order, a value like
:menu,maximize,minimize,close
would be appropriate. Don’t forget to set the colon or metacity will crash as soon as you have entered and confirmed your value!
Enable Peek Preview in Windows 8 Consumer Preview
One of the more useful Aero features of Windows 7 was that you could just hover your mouse over the bottom right corner where the Peek rectangle was positioned and all the windows would become fully transparent so you had a better overview of the desktop.
In the Windows 8 Consumer Preview the only default option to do this is to right-click the taskbar and to select Show the desktop – which is done with two clicks more than before.
To save those two clicks there is an easy way to re-enable Peek preview by right-clicking the space in the bottom right corner where the rectangle used to be and to activate Peek at desktop.
The space will then have the same functions as in Windows 7. If you move the mouse to the very corner however, it will still trigger the Windows 8 Charms menu.