How Do I remove minimize, maximize, and close buttons in Ubuntu 18.04?

Question

I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04. Previously in GNOME 3, the minimize, maximize, and close buttons never appeared on any of my applications, such as Chromium Browser and Emacs. These buttons annoy me because I am used to clicking Alt+Space.

How do I remove these buttons from Ubuntu 18.04?

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered May 28 '18 at 01:27

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If you want to get rid of those window control buttons from all the windows run the following command in Terminal

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout :

To undo this step, run

gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout

answered May 28 '18 at 01:27

pomsky

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Awesome it works! I was wondering how you found out about this command? – Ivanm May 28 '18 at 02:02
gsettings list-schemas and then gsettings monitor <schema> while you tweak gnome settings with a UI tool such as Tweaks – Lars Blumberg Sep 28 '22 at 21:30

How Do I remove minimize, maximize, and close buttons in Ubuntu 18.04?

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