screen resolution not saving

[Mr Chris Aitken]

Mr Chris Aitken wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> 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.
Okay, I did all you suggested:

chris at bpc:~$ chmod -R 750 /home/chris
chris at bpc:~$ ls -ld /home/chris /home/chris
drwxr-x--- 39 chris chris 4096 2008-04-22 21:48 /home/chris
drwxr-x--- 39 chris chris 4096 2008-04-22 21:48 /home/chris
chris at bpc:~$ chmod -R 644 /home/chris/.dmrc
chris at bpc:~$ ls -ld /home/chris /home/chris/.dmrc
drwxr-x--- 39 chris chris 4096 2008-04-22 21:48 /home/chris
-rw-r--r--  1 chris chris   28 2008-04-22 21:48 /home/chris/.dmrc
chris at bpc:~$

Now I'm not getting the " ! User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored..." 
error ( a good thing), but my screen resolution/frequency (that I set in 
System > Administration > Screens and Graphics) is still not persisting 
through logons and reboots. I had assumed that this problem and the 
permissions problem were related. Maybe not...

Any ideas how to get my screen resolution/frequency to persist?

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