screen resolution not saving

John McGregor mr.mcgregor-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Mon Apr 21 15:26:08 UTC 2008


Mr Chris Aitken wrote:
> I have to change my screen resolution every time I boot my ubuntu 7.10
> computer.
>
> I get a message:
>
> ! User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents default
> session and language from being saved. File should be owned by user
> and have 644 permissions. User's $HOME directory must be owned by user
> and not writable by other users.
>
> So, I did the following:
>
> I ran...
>
> chris at bpc:~$ sudo chown chris /home/chris/.dmrc
>
Why don't you just edit xorg.conf so that the resolution that you want
is the only option available by adding that resolution (if necessary)
and commenting out the others?

John
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