Is it possible to force chromium show the “window control icons” on the left

Question

I'm not running Gnome or Ubuntu,

But I also want those (minimize, maximze, close) icons to be visible on the left as well, without touching the source code, is there any way to make it work ?

EDIT

I prefer the icon s provided by chromium, I uploaded the wrong screenshot, it's updated now !

I'm on XFCE4, Arch Linux

EDIT2

Hmm, read part of the source code, and I nailed it with a very dirty method, but still looking for other methods ...

Answer 1

Doing this is pretty easy to do in xfce4 as window decorations are handled by xfwm4 which can be configured fairly straight forward.

You go to your Settings Manager->Window Manager and simply rearrange the titlebar items on the left in whatever fashion you want.

PS. The one in Ubuntu supposedly follows the gconf /apps/metacity/general/button_layout key, but I'm on arch too and can't seem to make it work.

Answer 2

Turns out chromium reads about gconf if metacity is the current window manager.

Otherwise it uses a default icon string to build the layout, which is:

:minimize,maximize,close

So, it's impossible.