How to move window buttons from left to right side of title bar in Gnome Classic?

Question

How to move the window buttons (close, minimise, maximise) from the left side of the title bar to the right side in Gnome Classic 12.10? gconf-editor (apps > metacity etc) doesn't work. Nor does dconf-editor nor does Gnome Tweak tool.

Answer 1

Try using Ubuntu Tweak.

To install, run

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak    

For more information see How do I install Ubuntu Tweak.

Open Ubuntu Tweak, go to the Tweaks tab and click on Window. Then set the window control button position to be right.

Hope this helps!