https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia- settings/+bug/200868/comments/39
This pretty much says it all. Alberto was going to write the patch but asked the higher ups how they wanted it done and never got a response. "If you run with gksudo you're running a full GUI app as root for no reason _and_ causing a bug because the .nvidia-settings-rc file will be saved for the root user instead of for the user running the app so setting changes they make that _don't_ write to xorg.conf will not be saved in the correct location. I would say just making a full GUI app run as root is enough of a bug to not implement this 'fix'. We're trying to reduce the number of apps that do such a thing, not increase them." Anybody else spot the prejudice involved in the preceding statement? What makes a GUI app anymore dangerous to run as root than a non-GUI app? Sounds to me like the old bugaboo about "real Linux users don't use GUI." Pure BS. Particularly when Ubuntu's stated aim is to make things as seamless as possible for Windoze converts. As to the ".nvidia-setting-rc" claim, that file doesn't even exist on my machine. But in general, all executable files should be in root folders, not in the /home/"user" -- 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
