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So I installed the proper Nvidia drivers for my graphics card and modified the screen to a personalized resolution and size because my "monitor" isn't actually a monitor and therefore isn't made to fit typical computer resolutions for some reason.

Anyway, I clicked the "create xorg.conf" button or whatever it is and put the file in /etc/X11. However this hasn't seemed to work.

Everytime I boot my computer in Ubuntu the resolution remains the default one which is off. The only way to fix this if for me to open the Nvidia control panel and manually change the resolution back to what it should be. Why does this keep happening? I suspect that it might have to do with the fact that xorg.conf file's name changes ever so often. It will change to something like xorg.conf.8125408 or some other random number and i'm not sure why. Does anyone know of a fix?

I have tried search for answers but all I find are questions as to where the xorg.conf file is and not my exact problem.

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It's maybe related to the GPU manager. It should be mentionned in the log file /var/log/gpu-manager.log.

If so, try commenting out the first 4 lines of the file /etc/init/gpu-manager.conf.

#start on (starting lightdm
#          or starting kdm
#          or starting xdm
#          or starting lxdm)
task
exec gpu-manager --log /var/log/gpu-manager.log
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  • I just checked the log file, and to be honest i'm not entirely sure what I'm looking at, however I saw something really interesting. I have Nvidia installed, however it claims that it is not enabled. Perhaps that's why it's ignoring the xorg.conf? Jul 24, 2015 at 17:27
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What about saving it in /usr/share/X11/ ? I know I have to save config files there instead of /etc/X11 on my system for certain configs.

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