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Gnome 3 Window Buttons Extension

This is an exntesion for Gnome 3 which puts minimize, maximize and close buttons in the top panel.

Supports custom button layouts and css theming!

You have to restart gnome-shell to apply a new theme properly.

Currently the buttons only control the active window.

Settings can be found at org.gnome.shell.extensions.window-buttons in dconf-editor

Installation

Copy the schema file to /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

# cp org.gnome.shell.extensions.window-buttons.gschema.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

Install schema:

# glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

Install the extension itself

$ cp [email protected] ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/

or

# cp [email protected] /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/

To-do

  • Check for theme matching metacity theme
  • Add unfocused window support for better theming
  • Add option to handle only maximized windows
  • Add option to hide if there are no maximized windows
  • Moar themes!

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