Lucid changed background color

[Tom H]

>> Keeping this in the spirit of this list... does anyone know how to put
>> the damn buttons back on the right side?

> Paste this in a terminal: gconftool-2 --type string --set
> /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "menu:maximize,minimize,close"

If you prefer the GUI, you can launch gconf-editor with alt-f2 and navigate to
/apps/metacity/general
and modify
button_layout

(are there two threads about this or is it just gmail misunderstanding
threading?)