title: Changing default settings in xmgrace
body: <p>I am trying to change the default settings, such as the font of the axes' labels, in xmgrace.</p>
  
  <p>I found many equivalent suggestions to do so online, for example the one in <a href="http://blog.louic.nl/?p=249" rel="nofollow">this blog</a>:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>open xmgrace, make the desired settings, save them as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>~/.grace/templates/Default.agr
  </code></pre>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>But if I try to do this, I get the following error message:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Can't write to file ~/.grace/templates/Default.agr, check permissions!
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The same happens if I open xmgrace with <code>sudo xmgrace</code>.</p>
  
  <p>What should I do?</p>
  
  <p>PS Since there was no <code>.grace/templates</code> folder in my home dir, I had to create it, like it is suggested <a href="https://lists.phy.duke.edu/pipermail/phy246/2006/000125.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p>