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On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 18:14:52 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>> > Can't you put nvidia-settings -l in xinitrc or autostart?
>> >
>> > That's the official way of loading the settings at login.
>>
>> If I remember, this option could not be set by commandline, only by
>> the nvidia-settings GUI. Maybe it has been added since then.
>
> When you quit the GUI, the settings are supposed to be saved to
> ~/.nvidia-settings-rc and loaded from there when you load the GUI. The -l
> switch tells nvidia-settings to load the settings from that file and
> quit, so it should do what you need.
>
> The settings file is plain text, so it's easy to see whether the setting
> you want is saved there, it may even be possible to add it manually,
> although that rather defeats the object of a GUI.

Unfortunately those settings are not saved in the file by the GUI, but
if they were it would have been easy as you described. :)