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[Aaron Plattner <aplattner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

lewmur, .nvidia-settings-rc is not an executable, it's a configuration
file that nvidia-settings uses to save user preferences for the server
configuration.  Wearing my "Ubuntu user" hat, I would personally prefer
not having it save things like my brightness and contrast settings in
root's home directory by default.  If the gksudo change is applied and
then the bug is later fixed some other way, users will be confused when
the settings they had previously saved into ~root/.nvidia-settings-rc
are no longer applied because the program is now reading ~/.nvidia-
settings-rc instead.

Wearing my "upstream maintainer" hat, I don't really have a say in what
Ubuntu does here.  If there's a way of changing xorg.conf from a non-
root program in a reasonably standard and reasonably distro-agnostic
way, I'll be sure to include it upstream.

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nvidia-settings doesn't have permissions to write xorg.conf
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