Bug#532320: nvidia-settings: Restoring settings automatically

[Andreas Beckmann]

Hi Tony, hi Ivan,

just in case NVIDIA changed something, could you try the current version of 
nvidia-settings (270.41.06-1) from unstable?

On Monday, 8. June 2009 15:34:02 Tony Houghton wrote:
> Package: nvidia-settings
> Version: 180.22-1

> The man page explains how to use .xinitrc to automatically run
> nvidia-settings --load-config-only when X starts. AFAIK gdm etc don't
> use .xinitrc for a standard "GNOME Session", "KDE Session" etc so that
> advice won't work for many people.
>
> Besides improving the documentation I think it would be a good idea to
> add an XDG autostart entry for nvidia-settings so inexperienced users
> don't have the bother of editing scripts or using the likes of
> gnome-session-manager. AFAICT running nvidia-settings --load-config-only
> in the absence of a .nvidia-settings-rc or even the NVidia driver merely
> fails silently, so I don't think this idea poses a danger for non-NVidia
> users.

Patches would be welcome, both for documentation and for autostart scripts.

On Saturday, 14. May 2011 01:33:08 Ivan Baldo wrote:
>      Hello.
>      This seems the right thing to do, if the user puts a special
> setting in the nvidia-settings program then it expects that setting to
> remain for the next reboot and not to have to load the program to apply
> the setting again.
>      I use all default settings but anyway...
>      Thanks for looking this.
>      Have a nice day!!!

At least there could be a button "Save these settings as defaults" or 
whatever.
(I must admit, I'm packaging this, but I'm not actively using it)

Andreas