Remove Minimize Button from GTK Window?

[Mitchell Verter <mitchell verter gmail com>]

Is there any way to remove the "Minimize" button by hacking the gtk+-2.24.18 code, or at least to prevent it from minimizing?

I have been fiddling around with gtkwindow.c and gtkwindow-decorate.c, playing with gtk_window_iconify() and   GtkWindow:decorated (Whether the window should be decorated by the window manager) but nothing seems to be working.

I've read online that it's not, in fact, possible , and that this is controlled by  the window manager.  But I wanted to ask here before I gave up.

The system we are working on is Ubuntu 11.04.  I believe the window manager is Metacity.

Thanks
Mitchell