Couple of things: 1. Did you try to change ownership of /home/rsteff/.config/ibus/bus to root? 2. I you want to appear exactly like root when you sudo do: 'sudo su -' The dash makes su take the new user's environment. Sometimes it's handy to keep your environment sometimes it's not.
HTH On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 11:20 AM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 09:28:52 -0700 > Dick Steffens <[email protected]> dijo: > > >I have an nVidia card in the computer in the living room with its HDMI > >port connected to the TV. When I boot up the machine the primary > >screen is the TV. But with the underscan issue (described some years > >ago), it is hard to click on the controls at the top of the screen. > >I've tried changing the default screen with nvidia-settings, but the > >changes never take. This morning I remembered that I'm supposed to > >run nvidia-settings with sudo. The OS is xubuntu 18.04. I get this > >message when I run nvidia-settings: > > > > <snippage> > > I can't give you details, but a couple of things might help. > > First, Ubuntu recently came out with updated versions of some of their > nVidia drivers. They were in the update manager for 18.04 and, with > great trepidation, I installed them when they first appeared. > Thankfully, they worked. > > Second, you might try switching to root instead of using sudo. I don't > fully understand why, but apparently there are some differences. To > become root you do 'sudo su.' One thing that I learned a long time ago > is that 'su' means 'switch user,' not 'super user.' > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
