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I recently switched from Linux Mint to Ubuntu Mate. The former allowed to use the middle mouse button to close a window by clicking on its tab at the bottom, the latter doesn't. As it is a feature which I found rather handy I wanted to ask if there is a way to enable middle mouse-botton window closing under Ubuntu Mate. Thanks in advance!

JKR
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No, It's not possible in Ubuntu's distribution of MATE. I think, it was a customization of mint systems.

Because the settings key that allowed this was org.mate.Marco.general action-middle-click-titlebar and it's possible valid values in Ubuntu MATE are 

$ gsettings range org.mate.Marco.general action-middle-click-titlebar 
enum
'toggle_shade'
'toggle_maximize'
'toggle_maximize_horizontally'
'toggle_maximize_vertically'
'minimize'
'none'
'lower'
'menu'
'last'

There is no close option. You can shade, minimize, maximize and several other window manipulations, but it seems close is not one of them.

Anwar
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    Thank you for your answer! Too bad that it is not possible but I think I'll be able to live with it :) – JKR Sep 09 '16 at 16:20