Ubuntu 14.04 has gone totalitarian by removing users options of moving min|max|close buttons

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http://askubuntu.com/questions/174292/how-can-i-move-all-the-window-controls-to-the-right-or-left

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It seems that Canonical went the totalitarian way and ordered that users should not be allowed to change the buttons position (you can find more technical details of this change on the bottom of this post).

As for now the only way to have windows buttons on the right side in 14.04 is to switch from Unity to the Gnome Flashback session (what I personally recommend). More details on how to do that are presented below.

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2014-05-06 18:51
Ubuntu 14.04: don't touch those buttons!
zafiro17@pipedot.org
Ubuntu keeps working on optimizations of its controversial UI, and they haven't all been equally liked. This one, too, is sure to cause some controversy: Thttp://askubuntu.com/questions/174292/how-can-i-y've remove-all-d the-w abindow-controls-ity to- choose whethe-r the buttons go on the left or right-or-left

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That's not necessarily an option that everyone cares about, but those who do, care strongly about the now-removed feature. From the AskUbuntu forum:
It seems that Canonical went the totalitarian way and ordered that users should not be allowed to change the buttons position (you can find more technical details of this change on the bottom of this post).

As for now the only way to have windows buttons on the right side in 14.04 is to switch from Unity to the Gnome Flashback session (what I personally recommend). More details on how to do that are presented below.
That is, the days of being able to make this personalization to your config, once easily handled either via the gconf-editor command line tool, or the equally comfortable command: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout ":minimize,maximize,close" have drawn to a close. Hope you like Ubuntu's choices, everyone: they're the only choices you get!
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