Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:54:47
Message-Id: 20110706082613.69db8a0c@zaphod.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups. by Paul Hartman
1 On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 23:19:00 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
2
3 > > When you quit the GUI, the settings are supposed to be saved to
4 > > ~/.nvidia-settings-rc and loaded from there when you load the GUI.
5 > > The -l switch tells nvidia-settings to load the settings from that
6 > > file and quit, so it should do what you need.
7 > >
8 > > The settings file is plain text, so it's easy to see whether the
9 > > setting you want is saved there, it may even be possible to add it
10 > > manually, although that rather defeats the object of a GUI.
11 >
12 > Unfortunately those settings are not saved in the file by the GUI, but
13 > if they were it would have been easy as you described. :)
14
15 So the man page should be updated to state "When nvidia-settings exits,
16 it queries the current settings from the X server and saves SOME OF them
17 to the configuration file." :(
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21 Neil Bothwick
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23 Programming Language: (n.) a shorthand way of describing a series of bugs
24 to a computer or a programmer.

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