{"id":1628,"date":"2013-09-13T10:40:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T10:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2013-09-24T06:57:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T06:57:12","slug":"move-window-buttons-add-minimize-elementary-os-luna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/move-window-buttons-add-minimize-elementary-os-luna\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Move Window Buttons &#038; Add Minimize in Elementary OS Luna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re not comfortable with the eOS style window buttons, here&#8217;s how to add minimize buttons and move <i>close, minimize, maximize buttons<\/i> to right or left. <\/p>\n<p>Because Elementary OS Luna is based on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise. So the setting is kinda similar. All you need to do is install Dconf Editor and change the value of button-layout.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/window-buttons-eos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/window-buttons-eos.jpg\" alt=\"window buttons eOS\" width=\"468\" height=\"193\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/window-buttons-eos.jpg 468w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/window-buttons-eos-300x123.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1.) To get started, first install Dconf Editor. Open Software Center from the dock, search for and install dconf-tools. Or you can run below command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get install dconf-tools<\/pre>\n<p>2.) Open Dconf Editor from the top-left app menu.<\/p>\n<p>3.) Navigate to <b>org > pantheon > desktop > gala > appearance<\/b>. There you can change the value of <b>button-layout<\/b> to:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>:minimize,maximize,close<\/b> will add the minimize button, and move all window buttons to right.<br \/>\n<b>close,maximize,minimize:<\/b> will add the minimize button, and move all window buttons to left.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/move-window-buttons-eos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/move-window-buttons-eos.jpg\" alt=\"move window buttons eos\" width=\"468\" height=\"241\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/move-window-buttons-eos.jpg 468w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/move-window-buttons-eos-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may find that colon &#8216;:&#8217; is the line of demarcation. Button names before (or after) the colon will set them to left (or right) of window title bar.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re not comfortable with the eOS style window buttons, here&#8217;s how to add minimize buttons and move close, minimize, maximize buttons to right or left. Because Elementary OS Luna is based on Ubuntu 12.04 Precise. So the setting is kinda similar. All you need to do is install Dconf Editor and change the value [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[435,21],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-elementary-os-luna","tag-move-window-buttons"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}