screen resolution not saving

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:13:22AM -0400, Mr Chris Aitken wrote:
> 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?

If that doesn't do it, then I don't know.  Does it switch if you go in
and select a new setting?

Of course the setting would have to be valid I guess.

I haven't ever used the resolution changing feature in gnome or kde
since I personally don't ever want anything but native resolution on my
screen.

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Len Sorensen
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