Questions tagged [window-buttons]
Window Buttons are the buttons at the top of the windows that close, minimize, and maximize the current window. The red X closes a window, the minus sign minimizes, and the rectangle maximizes.
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How to switch window controls to the left (Gnome Shell)?
Is there a way to the switch gnome-shell window buttons to the left? I've gotten so used to them being on the left that them being on the right has thrown me way off.
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Terminal icon in window titlebar is stretched out over window control buttons
A while ago I upgraded from Ubuntu 17.04 to Ubuntu 17.10 and everything is working fine except for the fact that the icon in the window title bar of my Terminal seems to be stretched out to some ...
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How to bring back minimize and maximize buttons in Gnome 3
I have recently installed Ubuntu Gnome which has the latest version of Gnome 3 running on it, and I have noticed that on windows there are no minimize buttons, and no maximize buttons, although I can ...
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Window Controls moved to right hand side [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I move all the window controls to the right?
without realising, the Windows Controls (max, min, close) have been moved to the right hand side without me realising. I ...
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Can I hide the Firefox title bar AND still see the close/minimize/maximize icons?
I am using Ubuntu 18.04. I realize with GNOME, or its extensions, I can do things like hide the title bar. However, I want to hide the title bar and still see the windows management icons like on Mac ...
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How do I move the Window buttons from left to right? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I move all the window controls to the right?
How can I move the window buttons to the right?
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How to close, minimize, and maximize a specified window from Terminal?
I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18 and I am wondering if there is a way from Terminal to close, minimize, unminimize, maximize, and unmaximize specified windows?
Note - I've looked at ...
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How come all my window buttons are right aligned, but chrome buttons are on the left?
I am wondering why chrome close/maximize buttons are aligned to the left while all the buttons are aligned to the right. The truth is that the chrome buttons are right aligned too when in the chrome ...
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How can I always show the close, minimise & maximise buttons into their own windows?
Ubuntu 11.10 hides the close, min and max buttons in the top panel. Is there a way to bring all that back into the actual window and not in the panel?
Not just the buttons, but also the File, Edit ...
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How do I hide/disable close buttons for GNOME windows?
I am using the Pixel Saver extension for GNOME Shell, similar to the old Maximus extension for GNOME 2 / Unity. When I maximise a window, the title and menu bars are hidden.
But I don't want the ...
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Is there a way to remove maximized window controls/title from top panel in Unity
Cramming window controls and window title into the top panel, doesn't really appeal to me, since it looks like it's a permanent fixture, I'm wondering if there is a way to disable this behavior.
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How do I add minimize / maximize buttons to GNOME shell windows?
Just installed Ubuntu 12.04, then I did
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
and windows have only a close button, how can I enable minimize / maximize? The old gconf-editor doesn't seem to work cause ...
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Window title-bars missing occasionally in Unity
window (title and icon) sometimes doesn't appear. As a solution to this, I have to logout and login again. Is there something wrong with my system? How to make sure that this doesn't happen again?
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How can I move the Exit, Maximize, Minimize buttons to the left in Kubuntu?
I want to move exit, maximize, and minimize button to the left like I can do in Ubuntu 11.10. How to do it?
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Ubuntu 23.04 close not working
I am unable to close programs on Ubuntu 23.04. I cannot see any change when hovering over the minimize, maximize and close buttons. When I try to click the close button nothing happens.
Here are my ...
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Title bar settings missing in GNOME Tweaks on Ubuntu 20.04
I tried to move my "close, minimise and maximise" to the right + add the macOS theme to it. However, I have not been able to find any settings for that. In GNOME Tweaks > Windows the settings to put ...
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Is it possible to remove the dash window control buttons?
Is it possible to change or remove the Unity dash window control buttons (Close, Minimize, Maximize) in Ubuntu 11.10? I'm not a huge fan of how they look and would like to swap them out if possible.
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How to get a "Maximize" button in every window in GNOME Fallback
Just installed Ubuntu 11.10 (AMD64), and immediately switched back to GNOME with GNOME Fallback.
I'm searching for a feature which provided a "maximise" button in every window, even ones which should ...
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How can I move Chrome's buttons to the right in Gnome3's Shell
I switched from Unity to Gnome Shell in Ubuntu. Now Chrome has the buttons on the left side, but I want them on the right. How can I fix this without switching to the system titlebar?
I also tried ...
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How can I get bigger window buttons in unity ?
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 with unity. I would like to have bigger window buttons (close, maximize, minimize) in unity (theme Ambiance or Radiance). I am using Ubuntu on a touchscreen with my fingers and ...
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Resize the window control buttons (close, restore, maximize)
How can I change the size of the close/restore/maximize/minimize buttons of the windows?
They are too small for me. With a big monitor, it's difficult to position the mouse over them.
Is there a ...
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No Title Bar button to close window Ubuntu 18.04
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 from Ubuntu 16.04, the titlebar buttons on the upper left corner of the window for closing, minimizing and maximizing windows have vanished.
Then I went to GNOME ...
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Change color of window buttons
Is it possible to change the window button color of the close, minimise and maximise buttons of the Ambience theme from orange to an user defined color? I tried to find anything relavant in the gtkrc, ...
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How can I always show the close, minimise and maximise buttons on their windows and keep global menus?
First, this is not a duplicate of
How can I always show the close, minimise & maximise buttons into their own windows?
- I would like to preserve global menus.
Is there a way to only always show ...
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How to increase the size of window buttons on Ubuntu?
I have found settings to only increase the launcher size. Could anyone help me in increasing the size of window-buttons (minimize, maximize and close buttons) on Ubuntu (if possible titlebar size too)?...
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How do I move "Application menu" within the widows title bar on the left side while "minimize, maximize, close" buttons are placed on the right side?
I'm looking for a way to move the application menu in the window's title bar on the left side as it is illustrated on the next image.
Optionally, I will be happy if there is some way to force such ...
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How can I hide the decoration of maximized windows?
I just added the Window Buttons applet to my panel, but it seems that the Hide Compiz decorations for maximized windows feature no longer works after my upgrade to Natty. Is there another way to ...
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Nautilus window buttons disappear when maximized [closed]
On a freshly updated Ubuntu 18.04 (Gnome 3.28.2), I used Gnome tweak tools to move window buttons to the left ('close,maximize,minimize:'). All applications seem fine, except Nautilus where the ...
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Can the Window Controls (Max, Min, Close) and the Title be moved to the Bottom?
I know I can move them to the left or the right, even on the middle, but I've never seen a window with it's controls and title on the bottom instead on the top.
Is it even possible to? Like if I ...
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How to resize window icons (min, max, close), Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome
I've tried all the tweaks I could find on the internet and I still can't resize the window icons (close, min, max). Everything else, I've been able to resize perfectly, but not even scale changes them,...
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Kubuntu how to make close button hit screen corner
on Windows, I could just throw my mouse somewhere to the top right and then always hit the close button, if the window was maximized. On Kubuntu/KDE however, the circle hitbox doesn't hit the most top-...
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How to restore correct window control behaviour in Gnome? [closed]
I'm having an issue on my laptop which is preventing me from changing the settings for GTK+ applications that use headerbars. Non-header bar applications are working just fine.
What happened is that ...
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How can I place Gedit's tab close buttons on the left?
I would like to make Gedit fit more to the Ubuntu default themes Ambiance and Radiance. Therefore I would like to place the tab close buttons on the left instead of the right of each tab.
I asked a ...
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How can I move the System menu on the top bar to the left side?
I am left-handed. On the top bar, I need the System menu (and Logout, User Switch, Clock, Battery Status, etc) on the left side. And I need the global menu items as well as the window buttons (close, ...
