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pa4080
Asked: 2019-11-23 23:50:25 +0800 CST

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?

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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.

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Optionally, I will be happy if there is some way to force such application menu to appear for non-GTK windows as Firefox, Chromium, GIMP, etc.

gnome desktop-environments window-buttons 18.04 gnome-tweaks

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  1. Best Answer

    You can achieve the preferred ordering of window control buttons by running the following:

    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout appmenu:minimize,maximize,close

    The : works as a "separator". You can put any button to the left or right of the : to make it appear on the left or right of the title-bar.

    In order to place something in the left corner of the window title bar for all GTK and non GTK windows, you can modify the above command in this way (reference):

    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout menu:appmenu,minimize,maximize,close

    Here is how the final result looks like for GTK and non GTK windows:

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