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Get menu icons back

Tested with Karmic Koala

After switching to Ubuntu 9.10, I noticed, that my preferred window border theme C2 didn't show the application's icons in the top left of the window. Getting them back is a matter of changing the x/y entries in the section "menu_button_icon" in the file metacity-theme-1.xml in the theme's folder under ~/.themes/c2/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml:

<draw_ops name="menu_button_icon">
  <!-- icon  x="0"
         y="0"
         width="width" height="height"/ -->
  <icon  x="(width-mini_icon_width)/2-2"
         y="(height-mini_icon_height)/2+1"
         width="mini_icon_width" height="mini_icon_height"/>
</draw_ops>

<draw_ops name="menu_button_icon_unfocused">
  <!-- icon  x="0"
         y="0"
         width="width" height="height" alpha="0.5"/ -->
  <icon  x="(width-mini_icon_width)/2-2"
         y="(height-mini_icon_height)/2+1"
         width="mini_icon_width" height="mini_icon_height" alpha="1.0"/>
</draw_ops>

While experimenting, it is sufficient to keep the theme window (System / Preferences / Appearance / Theme / Customize / Window Border) open. To reload the theme, you just activate another window style and then you reactivate your style.

Move Icons to the Right

$ gconftool --type string --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "menu:minimize,maximize,close"