Uwe Dippel wrote: > I don't have access to the machine for a few days to come. But I wanted to > thank you all for your input. By now, I think I figured out what went wrong. > It actually is a bug in the applet. It offers you to 'Save X Configuration', > and I clicked 'Save' to the default value of /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > I thought it was some setuid-process, but it isn't. It simply does not save > the file at all, and neither does it complain, nor ask for the root password. > (I tried everything on another machine, also nv70.) > > Workaround: Save to your $HOME and then copy the file to /etc/X11, and you're > done. > > I'll check the Screen Resolution / dtlogin (thanks, rugrat), as well as > gconftool (thanks, dkenny) when I have access; for further clarification. > The above workaround doesn't make sense. The original complaint was 640x480 was selected as the screen resolution for a specific user. For other users, the screen resolution was OK.
Whether /etc/X11/xorg.conf exists or not, the resulting behavior is global to the system and applies equally to all users. The above workaround could not have fixed the original problem. The desktop configuration is set up in the following order: /etc/X11/xorg.conf - applies to all users and will determine the display configuration for dtlogin/gdm, since the user has not logged in yet A user logs in: If $HOME/.xinitrc exits and executes "nvidia-settings --load-config-only", whatever the user last defined by running nvidia-settings will be loaded. then If the user has previously run the GNOME Display Resolution and selected a mode, this mode gets loaded.
