lewmur, .nvidia-settings-rc is not an executable, it's a configuration file that nvidia-settings uses to save user preferences for the server configuration. Wearing my "Ubuntu user" hat, I would personally prefer not having it save things like my brightness and contrast settings in root's home directory by default. If the gksudo change is applied and then the bug is later fixed some other way, users will be confused when the settings they had previously saved into ~root/.nvidia-settings-rc are no longer applied because the program is now reading ~/.nvidia- settings-rc instead.
Wearing my "upstream maintainer" hat, I don't really have a say in what Ubuntu does here. If there's a way of changing xorg.conf from a non- root program in a reasonably standard and reasonably distro-agnostic way, I'll be sure to include it upstream. -- nvidia-settings doesn't have permissions to write xorg.conf https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200868 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
