I fully agree! The problem is just that the user probably won't know which settings that require xorg.conf write-acess (and shouldn't need to!). Seeing that nvidia-settings doesn't use any kind of privilege escalation system, the user might get stuck with an error after changing settings. Assuming that there is consensus about such error being unacceptable, I only see 2 immediate solutions:
1) Patch nvidia-settings to use privilege escalation (Policy-Kit?) 2) Always run nvidia-settings with superuser access Personally, I'd prefer solution 1), but if that is too much work then 2) seems acceptable to me as well. 2) isn't ideal, as you point out, but still better than throwing write-access errors in my opinion. -- 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
