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). What we could do is make it use PolicyKit to ask the password only when the xorg.conf must be modified.
I'm marking this as a wishlist report. ** Changed in: nvidia-settings (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist -- 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 [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
