lewmur: had you read comment 8 you would have seen the reason why nvidia-settings shouldn't run as root. Anyway, here's my point:
"Rationale: nvidia-settings doesn't have to be launched as root as it saves the user's settings to ~/.nvidia-settings-rc (so as to have per user settings)." -- 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
