screen resolution not saving

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:16:38AM -0400, 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
> 
> then I ran...
> 
> chris at bpc:~$ chmod 644 /home/chris/.dmrc
> 
> then I ran...
> 
> chris at bpc:~$ sudo chown chris /home/chris
> 
> I'm still having the same problem.
> 
> Any next steps I can try?

ls -ld /home/chris /home/chris/.dmrc

Make sure that both are only writeable by your user (so 755 or 750 or
whichever for the home directory, and 644 or 640 or whatever for the
file.

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Len Sorensen
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