Booting in to a clean installation of Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) with VMWare Tools installed I get a Could not apply the stored configuration for monitors error:
The solution is to remove monitors.xml from /home/<username>/.config.
To do this I opened a Terminal and changed the directory to .config:
cd .config
I backed-up and then deleted monitors.xml:
cp monitors.xml monitors.bak rm monitors.xml
I rebooted for good measure – now VMWare Tools adjusts my resolution without errors.
Source: http://askubuntu.com/questions/67337/how-do-i-get-rid-of-this-monitor-error
thanks
Thanks for the share! I allowed Ubuntu to do some updates recently to my Asus G51 and after rebooting I was greeted with the same error message. Worked like a charm.
Yes. It does work. Thanks
My error was specifically:
Could not apply stored configuration to monitors.
Error on line 1 Char 1. Document was empty or contained whitespace.
This fix worked perfectly.
It did solve my issue, Thanks!