Gnome 3 Window Buttons Extension

This is an exntesion for Gnome 3 which puts minimize, maximize and close buttons in the top panel.

Supports custom button layouts and css theming!

You have to restart gnome-shell to apply a new theme properly.

Currently the buttons only control the active window.

Settings can be found at org.gnome.shell.extensions.window-buttons in dconf-editor

Installation

Copy the schema file to /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

# cp org.gnome.shell.extensions.window-buttons.gschema.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

Install schema:

# glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

Install the extension itself

$ cp window_buttons@biox.github.com ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/

or

# cp window_buttons@biox.github.com /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/

To-do

• Check for theme matching metacity theme
• Add unfocused window support for better theming
• Add option to handle only maximized windows
• Add option to hide if there are no maximized windows
• Moar themes!