This is a design choice by the artwork team for Lucid. This blog explains how to tweak the window controls back to the right: http://blog.daviey.com/blogroll/anything-but-the-buttons.html
This is not a bug as this is a deliberate choice by the design team. ** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- [Lucid] Metacity window controls are on the left side after update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/533566 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to metacity in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs