I downloaded the newest Ubuntu to toy with in VMware and I really had the great desire to strangle who ever decided it would be a good idea to move the minimize, maximize, and close buttons to the LEFT side of the window bar.
After my momentary, are you kidding me, thoughts, it occurred to me that OSX has the same setup.
Now, interestingly enough I have a Mac and I use the left side buttons on it. Yet for at least a hour I continued to try to click at the right to get things closed in Ubuntu. Muscle memory, for those who do not think consciously about where to click when getting rid of, was going to cause me headache for the foreseeable future.
So to save you the headache I went through, enjoy the fix (from the command line):
gconftool-2 –set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout –type string “menu:minimize,maximize,close”
