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Working with Ubuntu Studio (XFCE desktop) 18.04. I'm seeing this problem: image of example problem child window

What's happening is that I'm setting the org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences.button-layout setting in dconf-editor to put all my window buttons on the left side. dconf-editor (and other I'm assuming GTKish applets) are putting the buttons on the right side. I'm running metacity/compiz as my WM, and don't know what setting I'm missing (or if I'm missing any).

Does anyone know the setting I'm missing? This isn't happening on my laptop with a 17.10 install with the same config.

pomsky
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Henry Gernhardt
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It looks like you forgot a :. Try 

'appmenu,shade,maximize,close:'
pomsky
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The problem is Gnome 3 client side decorations. I discovered the culprit in this askubuntu answer. Further research revealed this askubuntu question. The solution turned out to be:

  • Install the gtk3-nocsdpackage (available in the universe repository)
  • log out, then log back in

This results in a hackish but functional means by which to restore the title bar and remove the CSD window buttons.

Henry Gernhardt
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