How to change window control buttons in Elementary OS

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More and more users are using Elementary OS, the famous distribution that is based on Ubuntu but has a strong optimization and customization to resemble Mac OS. So users do not usually miss their desktop if they come from an Apple product. But there is something that everyone wants and misses: window control buttons.
Elementary OS has a close button at the top left and a maximize button at the top right, but What if we want to minimize? How do we install the button in Elementary OS windows?

Window control buttons can be modified and customized in Elementary OS

If we have a version prior to Loki of Elementary OS, the change and customization of the window control buttons can be modified and customized thanks to Elementary Tweak, a graphical program that we can graphically customize windows and more aspects of Elementary OS. For its installation we have to open a terminal and add the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mpstark/elementary-tweaks-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install elementary-tweaks

If, on the other hand, we have an unstable version or we do not want to install anything new, we have to go to Dconf-Tools, there we go to org> pantheon> desktop> gala> appearance and in button-layout we modify it to add the minimize button.

Both in Elementary Tweak and in button-layout the button configuration system is as follows:

  • : maximize, close (Maximize and close buttons on the right).
  • maximize, close: (Maximize and close buttons on the left).
  • maximize: close, minimize (maximize button on the left, and close and minimize buttons on the right).
  • close: (Close button on the left).

How can you see the system and use to configure and customizing window control buttons is easy And anyone can do it, they just have to look a little bit or opt for the graphical tool, but at least Elementary OS continues with its philosophy of making it easy for all users and it succeeds, don't you think?


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  1.   clown said

    that you could not put an image of a newer version ...
    … Since the one you have put is Elementary OS Jupiter, which is based on Ubuntu 10.10 and has gnome 2.x

    1.    eljorge21 said

      I noticed the same thing, elementary Jupiter, it was a gnome with elementary themes, and something else. Later in the moon they presented Pantheon and the performance (in my Notebook) was not the same… (And Freya even more) So just looking at that image, an idea came to me… If gnome 2 is still alive in Mate… Mmmm create a Matementary

  2.   riverbank said

    After configuring it with Dconf, now the option to minimize appears. But not on all screens. Files and the terminal are a sample of this. Yes, they are minimized if once opened you click on their corresponding icon in the menu below, but it is a drag.