Nvidia driver error

[kenichiaeb]

Hi all, I'm new in this forum, and a little in ubuntu, before all, I'm sorry if my English is a little bad, cos I'm Argentinian and my language is Spanish.
I have been using it for 2 weeks and i love it, but there is a problem witch is teasing me.
The problem is that I installed the nvidia drivers, and the first time it worked very well, but when I turn off my computer and then I turn on it, the settings select the 800x600 resolution, and when I change the resolution again to 1024x768 and restart my computer, again the 800x600 resolution. I readied a similar problem in this forum, and I tried like 10 solutions, and none of them worked, so this is my question: how can I save the settings of nvidia?

Thanks for you help

[HappyFeet]

You need to do:

gksudo nvidia-settings

Make your changes, and save. But that might not work, so here is the rest:
Do:

sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

then restart nvidia-settings with:

gksudo nvidia-settings

then make all the changes you need, apply, then save configuration, and it will see you don't have a xorg.conf file. A new window will open. Hit the button lableled show output, and copy the file. Leave nvidia-settings open, and open a new terminal. Do:

sudo touch /etc/X11/xorg.conf && sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

then paste what you copied from nvidia-settings. Save and reboot.

[kenichiaeb]

Hi again, thank you, it worked.
But I have another problem now, the window's title and buttons are gone, I don't have the close, maximize or minimize buttons and even the shadows of the menus, I tried changing the theme for another, and rebooting again but it didn't work, what can I do now?

[HappyFeet]

sudo apt-get remove --purge metacity

then

sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoremove

then

sudo apt-get install metacity

[kenichiaeb]

There is another problem yet that i didn't see before...
The terminal doesn't work... It's just a white square, I write something but it still in blank, so I tried to do what you said trought the recovery mode and whitout the "sudo", but it didn't work either, what you recommend to do?
Thanks again

[HappyFeet]

In recovery mode, you can become root and execute those commands without sudo by doing

sudo -i

then run those commands without sudo.

[HappyFeet]

If you can get to your desktop, you can get a "terminal" by doing Ctrl-Alt-F2, then do the commands.

[kenichiaeb]

Ok, let me try
No, nothing works...
I think I'm going to reinstall

[kenichiaeb]

Okey, now it works perfect
The problem was that I didn't read the "Hit the button labeled show output".. actually I did, but I don't know why i didn't do it haha, what I did was save the config file with another name, and copy it's content and paste to the new file.
Anyway, now I reinstalled and done your first instruction and it worked perfect
Thank you for your help. Greetings!