Ubuntu – How to move the System menu on the top bar to the left side

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I am left-handed. On the top bar, I need the System menu (and Logout, User Switch, Clock, Battery Status, etc) on the left side. And I need the global menu items as well as the window buttons (close, minmize, maximize) on the right side. How can I do this?

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You can't do that. I remember reading some thoughts about doing things like that (I think with regards to right-to-left readers), but it hasn't been implemented yet.

Well. You can't do that with the Unity panel, anyway. I think it should be possible to replace the Unity 2D panel with a Gnome Panel, add the indicator-applet-complete and the global menu applet, move the window buttons and achieve the same effect that way. I haven't tried it myself, though, but it should work. It would require some tweaking.

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Ubuntu – How come all the window buttons are right aligned, but chrome buttons are on the left

Chrome draws its own buttons rather than letting the OS do it. There is a setting that allows it to use native window titlebars, but this isn't the most elegant solution to the problem because you lose the benefit (when windowed) of Chrome not having extra space for the titlebar.

Chrome guesses which side to put the buttons on based on various Gnome-related settings, but this doesn't always work properly with Ubuntu's Unity interface.

This article tells how to move them to the desired side. Note that if you sometimes use Gnome-shell rather than Unity, this has the potential to affect how all title bars appear in your Gnome-shell sessions.

To quote:

To move window buttons of Google Chrome to the right under Ubuntu 12.10 or older, open the terminal and issue this command:
gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string ":minimize,maximize,close"

Ubuntu – How to restart the menu bar in Unity

You can do this by restarting Unity:

You can press Alt+F2, then type "unity", then click Enter to restart unity.
Or you can run below command in terminal to restart Unity:
```
setsid unity
```

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