Ubuntu – How to move window titles to the center of the title bar in 12.10

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By default the window titles are on the left side of the title bar. Is there a way to center the titles?

Best Answer

Yes there is a way, open up your terminal and go to the folder /usr/share/themes/YourTheme/metacity-1/

in my case that would be Ambience

cd /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/metacity-1/

in this folder should be a file called metacity-theme-1.xml, open this file in your favorite editor, you need sudo rights though!

search for this part

<draw_ops name="draw_title_text_normal">
<title color="#333" x="10" y="(((height - title_height) / 2) `max` 0)+1"/>
<title color="#333" x="10" y="(((height - title_height) / 2) `max` 0)-1"/>
<title color="#333" x="9" y="(((height - title_height) / 2) `max` 0)"/>
<title color="#333" x="11" y="(((height - title_height) / 2) `max` 0)"/>
<title color="#dfdbd2" x="10" y="(((height - title_height) / 2) `max` 0)"/>
</draw_ops>

and replace all the x="" numbers with 

((width - title_width) / 2) max 0

so it'll look like this at the end

<draw_ops name="draw_title_text_normal">
<title color="#333" x="((width - title_width) / 2) `max` 0" y="(((height - title_height) / 2) `max` 0)+1"/>
<title color="#333" x="((width - title_width) / 2) `max` 0" y="(((height - title_height) / 2) `max` 0)-1"/>
<title color="#333" x="((width - title_width) / 2) `max` 0" y="(((height - title_height) / 2) `max` 0)"/>
<title color="#333" x="((width - title_width) / 2) `max` 0" y="(((height - title_height) / 2) `max` 0)"/>
<title color="#dfdbd2" x="((width - title_width) / 2) `max` 0" y="(((height - title_height) / 2) `max` 0)"/>
</draw_ops>

save the changes, logout and login again, and the titles are centered!

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