As an intermediate user who has recently succeeded in setting up dual
screens in intrepid, i'd like to offer my two cents here. Most novices
are never going to find this menu because it doesnt come in with the
drivers. I had to google deep to find the nvidia-settings package. I ran
into this issue of not being able to save the xorg.conf. It was pretty
simple to figure out how to run it with gksudo in the terminal. Since
this is the workaround most people will find they are going to be
running it as root anyway, why not just set it up that way. Its exactly
as dangerous i think. Also if this package had just come in with the
driver i wouldn't have been trying to manually edit xorg.conf earlier in
the day. I appreciate the experience that it gave me working with more
internals, as i'm actively trying to learn more about linux, but most
users do not want to get that involved.

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nvidia-settings doesn't have permissions to write xorg.conf
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200868
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