On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:54:01 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:

>    My question is about running nvidia-settings. I'm finding that if I
> shell into his machine using
> 
> ssh -X -Y -C IP-address
> 
> and run nvidia-settings I get it displayed here, as it should be. The
> problem is it is seeing my GTX 465 and not his 8400GS.

Looking at the man page, it appears you need to use the -ctrl-display
parameter or the $DISPLAY env var. The man page mentions that
nvidia-settings queries the X server, which is running locally. It looks
like this setting may force it to use another.


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