Issue 90307  has been merged into this issue.

I'm having the same issue.

In Unity, the buttons were on the left. In xfce there aren't. So there must be some way to make it work in xfce as well.

issue still exists in XFCE 4.10

Some questions:
- What version of XFCE are you guys using?
- Where is the button layout setting stored on your version?
- Is this setting documented anywhere on XFCE's website?

- XFCE 4.10
- It is stored in "/usr/share/themes/<theme_name>/xfwm4/themerc" file under "button_layout=" line.
- It is documented at http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/xfwm4_theme#themerc_file

The tricky thing is that not all themerc file of the themes include this button_layout line, some are missing it.

So when the user customizes the button order as seen in chromium_xfce.png above, where does that get saved to? I doubt users can write to /usr/share/themes/<theme_name>/xfwm4/themerc directly.

There's also the question of how to find out what the current selected theme is.

Thanks for answering these questions BTW.

I've also found and article here: http://xubuntugeek.blogspot.hu/2011/11/window-buttons-on-left-side-xubuntu.html
Stating that with CLI command
xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/button_layout -s "CMH|O"
you can set the window buttons to a desired order, where the characters at the end explained at http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/xfwm4_theme#themerc_file

Though, I am not able to understand that CLI command, trying to find someone who can give the exact location of the file that that command modifies.

Found it, or at least I hope I managed to:

~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfwm4.xml

<property name="button_layout" type="string" value="CMH|S"/>

Yes, you can set the Windows button order in xfwm4.xml or the theme file, but the Chromium just does not follow it.

	cr-doesnot-follow-xfwm4-button-layout.png 249 KB View Download

Thanks for all the info. I'll try to fix it this week.

I can confirm that ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfwm4.xml has the button_layout changed when I use XFCE settings manager to change window buttons. I know this is a minor issue, but I'm very excited to see that it may be fixed soon. Thanks!

Watching for changes to the config file works, but the other windows gets the button order reconfiguration updates faster. It looks like they might be listening over DBUS.

I was wondering if this change was pushed to the current google-chrome dev channel version (23.0.1271.10 dev). It seems it's not working yet.

	Screenshot_20121001_223909.png 115 KB View Download

More than two years later, obviously this change was not pushed.

	xfce-chromium-button-layout-20121002.png 285 KB View Download

Sorry folks, been busy with other things. I'll try to revisit the bug this week.

I hope this little bug will be fixed soon too beacause is always exist in Version 25.0.1364.160 (Xubuntu 12.10)

Hello, any chance this issue gets a fix? It's been 2 years and 7 months.

Hope this bug will eventually get fixed since someof the developers had already found out why long ago but just forgot to push the changes into the source code tree...

Hi there! More than 3 years passed, could you please push the changes to source tree?

After monitoring with dbus-monitor the result the operation of changing the button_layout property with the xfce4-settings-editor launches several D-bus messages.

Here there are the messages reported by dbus-monitor

method call sender=:1.77 -> dest=org.xfce.Xfconf serial=90 path=/org/xfce/Xfconf; interface=org.xfce.Xfconf; member=IsPropertyLocked
   string "xfwm4"
   string "/general/button_layout"
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.77 reply_serial=90
   boolean false
method call sender=:1.77 -> dest=org.xfce.Xfconf serial=91 path=/org/xfce/Xfconf; interface=org.xfce.Xfconf; member=SetProperty
   string "xfwm4"
   string "/general/button_layout"
   variant       string "O|SMHC"
method call sender=:1.77 -> dest=org.xfce.Xfconf serial=92 path=/org/xfce/Xfconf; interface=org.xfce.Xfconf; member=IsPropertyLocked
   string "xfwm4"
   string "/general/button_layout"
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.77 reply_serial=91
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.77 reply_serial=92
   boolean false
signal sender=:1.1 -> dest=(null destination) serial=309 path=/org/xfce/Xfconf; interface=org.xfce.Xfconf; member=PropertyChanged
   string "xfwm4"
   string "/general/button_layout"
   variant       string "O|SMHC"
method call sender=:1.77 -> dest=org.xfce.Xfconf serial=93 path=/org/xfce/Xfconf; interface=org.xfce.Xfconf; member=IsPropertyLocked
   string "xfwm4"
   string "/general/button_layout"
method call sender=:1.8 -> dest=org.xfce.Xfconf serial=22 path=/org/xfce/Xfconf; interface=org.xfce.Xfconf; member=GetProperty
   string "xfwm4"
   string "/general/margin_bottom"
method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.77 reply_serial=93
   boolean false

XFCE user here. Still no luck getting this in? :(

https://codereview.chromium.org/11338028/ stalled out for whatever reason. I need to stop saying "I'll fix it this week" because some weeks are very long weeks.

thomasanderson: interested?

#26 Sure, I'll give it a try

Wait a second.. The buttons don't appear on the correct side on Unity.  I think we should probably fix that first

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Huh. Well, I don't use Unity, and the right side is the right side. ;)

Duping into  bug 21438  because the fix for it (https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/636039) also addresses XFCE button layout.