How do I move "Application menu" within the widows title bar on the left side while "minimize, maximize, close" buttons are placed on the right side?

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I'm looking for a way to move the application menu in the window's title bar on the left side as it is illustrated on the next image.

Optionally, I will be happy if there is some way to force such application menu to appear for non-GTK windows as Firefox, Chromium, GIMP, etc.

The second part is, I think, not achievable (easily) and not very useful to begin with. The non-GTK applications you mentioned don't use the application-menu option at all. It only provides the default "Quit" option for those apps, nothing else. — pomsky, Nov 23 '19 at 08:08
@pomsky: I mean the title bars of these windows looks incomplete, so just an application icon in that place will be enough. — pa4080, Nov 23 '19 at 08:14

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 23 '19 at 08:43

You can achieve the preferred ordering of window control buttons by running the following:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout appmenu:minimize,maximize,close

The : works as a "separator". You can put any button to the left or right of the : to make it appear on the left or right of the title-bar.

In order to place something in the left corner of the window title bar for all GTK and non GTK windows, you can modify the above command in this way (reference):

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout menu:appmenu,minimize,maximize,close

Here is how the final result looks like for GTK and non GTK windows:

How do I move "Application menu" within the widows title bar on the left side while "minimize, maximize, close" buttons are placed on the right side?

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