{"id":289,"date":"2011-01-27T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/?p=289"},"modified":"2011-01-27T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T07:00:49","slug":"fix-two-ubuntu-10-04-window-manager-annoyances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/2011\/01\/27\/fix-two-ubuntu-10-04-window-manager-annoyances\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix two Ubuntu 10.04 window manager annoyances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 I noticed two annoyances (which actually are just a matter of personal taste):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The OSX-like positioning of the close, minimize and maximize buttons on the left instead of the right of the window.<\/li>\n<li>The fade-out (invisibility) of other windows when using Alt-Tab for tabbing through the available windows on the current desktop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As I tend to forget and need to Google every time I encounter a newly setup 10.04 system, I now jot down the settings to change.<\/p>\n<p>For changing the window buttons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Start <code>gconf-editor<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>Find <code>\/apps\/metacity\/general\/button_layout.<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Change its value to <code>menu:minimize,maximize,close<\/code>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For changing the opacity of inactive windows during Alt+Tab window switching:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Start <code>gconf-editor<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>Find <code>\/apps\/compiz\/plugins\/staticswitcher\/screen0\/options\/opacity<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>Change it to any value you like, where 100 is fully visible and 0 is totally invisible.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 I noticed two annoyances (which actually are just a matter of personal taste): The OSX-like positioning of the close, minimize and maximize buttons on the left instead of the right of the window. The fade-out (invisibility) of other windows when using Alt-Tab for tabbing through the available windows on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/2011\/01\/27\/fix-two-ubuntu-10-04-window-manager-annoyances\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fix two Ubuntu 10.04 window manager annoyances&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[214,48,47,81],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-software","tag-compiz","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu","tag-usability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}